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In this lesson, you can learn about the past perfect verb form.

When do you need to use the past perfect?

How do you use the past perfect verb tense correctly in a conversation?

You'll see the answers to these questions in this lesson.

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Let's see how to use the past perfect verb form.

First, they had booked a hall for the ceremony, but it was much too small.

Only 30 people could go in, and everyone else had to wait outside.

Surely they knew how many people they had invited?

They'd booked a restaurant for the reception, but they hadn't told them how many people

And then, as if that wasn't enough, there were so many long, boring speeches!

You could tell that no one had prepared their speeches, and they were just trying to improvise.

So, you're hungry and listening to boring speeches for hours?

In the dialogue, you heard five examples of the past perfect.

Pause the video to read if you need more time.

Two: what's the difference between the past perfect and the past simple?

You need 'had' or 'hadn't' plus a past participle.

For example, 'had gone', 'hadn't prepared', and so on.

Be careful, because 'would' can also be contracted to apostrophe-d.

In spoken language and in informal writing, you should generally use contractions.

This is important, because if you don't use the contractions, you won't hear them

What's the difference between the past perfect and the past simple?

To answer this, let's look at an example from the dialogue.

'They had booked a hall for the ceremony, but it was much too small.'

Here, you have the past perfect and the past simple

In the dialogue, we were talking about two different times in the past.

First, Kasia was telling me about a wedding she went to.

But, she also talked about things which happened – or didn't happen – *before* the wedding.

She used the past simple to talk about the wedding itself.

For example: I used the past perfect to talk about things

These are all things related to the preparations for the wedding, which took place earlier.

You use the past perfect when you're talking about the past, and you need to talk about

something which happened – or didn't – *before* the time in the past which you're talking

This happened to me when I was twelve years old.

I was on holiday with my family, and we were walking in a forest.

My Dad had told me that there were bears in the forest, but I didn't really take him

I was walking in front; I turned a corner, and… there was a bear!

I had never seen such a big animal in the wild before.

I remembered something I had read about bears: you should stay calm and try to move away

Luckily, the bear didn't seem to care that I was there.

Later, I felt scared, but at the same time I didn't feel anything – I guess because everything

When you tell a story, you need to talk about several things that happened in a sequence.

Use the past simple if you're talking about things which happened one after another

However, you might want to talk about things which happened *before* the time of your story.

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