Past Perfect Tense
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| We had finished our work by five o'clock. | () . |
| They had soldall the computers by the end of the last month. | . |
2. , . , . , Past Indefinite (Simple):
| had written three letters and was just starting on the fourth, when the door was suddenly flang open and Elsie Clayton rushed into the room. | , , . |
| Before I left, I had saidgood-bye to everybody. | , . |
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| I had wanted to send a telegram but I couldnt. | , . |
1. , Past Perfect Tense , .
Adelaide Hall was a very popular jazz singer in Britain during the war years. When she came to Britain in 1938, she had already been famous in America for a number of years. By the end of 1941 she had become one of the best-paid entertainers ( ) in Britain and she decided to stay there. She had lived in England for over fifty years when she died in 1993. She had been the first black star to sign a long-term contract with the BBC. By the time of her death she had recorded over seventy discs. During the war Adelaid had worked very hard and she had sung on the radio, in the theatre in the movies and in the nightclubs until the bomb destroyed the club which she had bought in 1940. After that she moved out of London and lived in Surrey countryside. When the war ended, she went to Berlin where whe was shocked by the devastation (, ). Where there had been streets there was nothing but ruins; she saw people had put up wooden boards with the street names written on them to show where the streets had once been. When she left Berlin, she felt very sad.
2. , Past Perfect Tense : to buy, to bring, to eat, to teach, to write, to study, to enter, to finish, to cut, to come, to understand, to work.
3. Past Perfect Tense.
1) Make / to write / a report by last Friday.
2) The students / to prepare / for the exams by the end of January.
3) Last year they went to England for the first time, they never / to be there before.
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4) First the children / to do / their homework and then went for a walk.
5) The police / to make / ten arrests by the time the match ended.
6) Before Mry joined the company, she / not to work / anywhere.
7) Pat / to cook / the breakfast when Sally got up.
8) I couldnt concentrate in the lesson because I / not to sleep / enough that night.
4. , Past Perfect Tense.
1) Was Tom at the party when you arrived? No, he / to go / home.
2) Why didnt Mary want to go to the cinema? She already / to see / the film.
3) Why didnt you tell him about my exam? I didnt know that you already / to pass / it.
4) Why did she feel tired? She / to work / hard the day before.
5) Why didnt he eat supper? He already / to have / it.
6) When did Alice get to the University? When the lecture already / to start /.
7) Did you infrom Mr Smith about your decision? No, he already / to know /.
5. , : Present Perfecr, Past Indefinite, Past Continuous Past Perfect.
1) Sorry, Im late. The car (to break) down on my way here.
2) We (to drive) along the road when we (to see) a car which (to break) down and we (to stop) to help them.
3) When I (to see) her she (to be) an old woman which (to be) beautiful in her youth.
4) When children (to come home), their parents already (to decorate) the Christmas-tree and the presents already (to be) prepared.
5) By the date of the examination the students (to pass) all the credit tests.
6) Mary (to hear) a strange noise and (to come) down the stairs but (not to see) anybody. She (to think) that somebody (to knock) at the door and (to run) away.
7) A.: What (to happen) to Harry?
B.: He (to lose) all his money.
A.: How it (to happen)?
B.: It (to happen) when he (to walk) in Paris. He (to get) the the hotel and (to understand) that somebody (to steal) his wallet.
8) She (to become) very rich but she still (to want) to be more successful.
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THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
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to have (will have) (Participle II) :
| We willhave discussed this article by the end of the week | . |
| They will have passed all their exams before they go to camp. | , . |
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| Will we have discussed this article by the end of this week? | ? |
| Will they have passed all their exams before they go to camp? | , ? |
will not:
| We will not have discussed this article by the end of the week. | . |
| They will not have passed all their exams before they go to camp. | , . |
will (ll) have (ve):
| Ill have earnedenough money soon to buy a new car. | , |
| Bill willve left by the time you get home. | , . |
will not (wont):
| The performance wont have finished by ten oclock. | 10 . |
THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
| I (we, you, he, she, it, they)will have left before it starts raining. | Will you (we, I, he, she, it, they) have left before it starts raining? -Yes, I will. No, I wont. | I (we, you, he, she, it, they) will not (wont) have left before it starts raining. |
