the past perfect

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the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous are the tenses used to talk about actions, behavior, or situations that began at a particular time in the past and were either complete or still continuing at that time. The past perfect simple consists of ‘had’ and a past participle, for example the verb group ‘had reached’ in the sentence ‘By 1900 the population of New York had reached almost three-and-a-half million’. The past perfect continuous consists of a form of ‘had’ followed by ‘been’ and a past participle, for example ‘had been planning‘ in the sentence ‘By February, he had been planning the event for seven months’.
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单词	the past perfect
释义	the past perfect nounlinguistics UK DEFINITIONS1 1 the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous are the tenses used to talk about actions, behaviour, or situations that began at a particular time in the past and were either complete or still continuing at that time. The past perfect simple consists of ‘had’ and a past participle, for example the verb group ‘had reached’ in the sentence ‘By 1901 the population of London had reached over six-and-a-half million’. The past perfect continuous consists of a form of ‘had’ followed by ‘been’ and a past participle, for example ‘had been planning’ in the sentence ‘By February, he had been planning the event for seven months’. Synonyms and related words Verb forms and tenses aspect auxiliary verb conjugation the past perfect nounlinguistics US DEFINITIONS1 1 the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous are the tenses used to talk about actions, behavior, or situations that began at a particular time in the past and were either complete or still continuing at that time. The past perfect simple consists of ‘had’ and a past participle, for example the verb group ‘had reached’ in the sentence ‘By 1900 the population of New York had reached almost three-and-a-half million’. The past perfect continuous consists of a form of ‘had’ followed by ‘been’ and a past participle, for example ‘had been planning‘ in the sentence ‘By February, he had been planning the event for seven months’. Synonyms and related words Verb forms and tenses aspect auxiliary verb conjugation
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