{"id":189,"date":"2019-10-17T23:34:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2019-10-24T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T16:18:10","slug":"past-perfect-tense","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/past-perfect-tense","title":{"rendered":"Past Perfect Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When mentioning two different incidents that occurred at different time in the past, the first occurred among them is said in <strong>past perfect tense<\/strong> and the incident that occurred after that is said in <strong>simple past tense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Sub + had + PP Verb + Obj <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The patient has died before the doctor arrived<\/li><li>When I reached the station the train had left.<\/li><li>He had finished his work before he went away.<\/li><li>I had read the novel before my friend came.<\/li><li>My cousin came to see me after I had done my exercise.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-squared my-nav-buttons-left\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/past-continuous-tense\">Past Continuous tense<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button alignright my-nav-buttons-right\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/past-perfect-continuous-tense\">Past Perfect Continuous Tense<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When mentioning two different incidents that occurred at different time in the past, the first occurred among them is said in past perfect tense and the incident that occurred after that is said in simple past tense. Sub + had + PP Verb + Obj Example The patient has died before the doctor arrived When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":2130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-english"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7pDEj-33","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114,"url":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense","url_meta":{"origin":189,"position":0},"title":"Tense","author":"Ranjith","date":"April 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"There are 3 tenses in English Grammar. They are Past Tense, Present Tense and Future Tense. Past Tense say about an event that occurred in the past. Present tense says about an event that is occurring now and future tense says about an event that will occur in the future.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;English&quot;","block_context":{"text":"English","link":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/category\/english"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":142,"url":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/simple-past-tense","url_meta":{"origin":189,"position":1},"title":"Simple Past Tense","author":"Ranjith","date":"June 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Simple Past Tense is used to tell about an event which already occurred in the past. Sub + past form of the verb + obj or Sub + did + verb + obj Simple Past Tense should be used in sentences which contain time words which represent the past like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;English&quot;","block_context":{"text":"English","link":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/category\/english"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":214,"url":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/future-perfect-continuous-tense","url_meta":{"origin":189,"position":2},"title":"Future Perfect Continuous Tense","author":"Ranjith","date":"October 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Future Perfect Continuous Tense is used to say an action that started in the past and at a time in the future the action will be still continuing. This tense is rarely used in English Sub + will\/shall + have + been + verb + ing + Obj Example Rohan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;English&quot;","block_context":{"text":"English","link":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/category\/english"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133,"url":"https:\/\/www.examcoaching.in\/blog\/english\/tense\/present-perfect-tense","url_meta":{"origin":189,"position":3},"title":"Present Perfect Tense","author":"Ranjith","date":"April 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"If the result of a previously finished work still exist then it is said in Present Perfect Tense. i.e. this tense is used to say that an action has already completed just before we say about it. 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