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Past perfect tense
过去完成时
Leading in
Read part A on page 6 and complete the True or False exercise.
1. He regularly visited the library and studied English and Law—by then he had learnt very little French.
2. By the age of 25, he had become a teacher.
3. He used the same business strategy he employed at the St Louis Post-Dispatch and sales of the newspaper mounted up until it was the bestselling newspaper in the country.
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过去完成时:had + 过去分词done
A Exploring the rules
Below is the short life story of Joseph Pulitzer. Find the sentences that use the past perfect tense and fill in the box below. The first one has been done for you.
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... he had become a publisher.
He used the same business strategy he had employed at the St Louis Post-Dispatch ...
We often use the past perfect tense to talk about something that happened (1) _________ (before / after) a past time.
The verb form of the past perfect tense is “(2) _____ (have / had) done”.
Working out the rules
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before
had
过去完成时的基本用法
1. 表示在过去的某一时间或某一动作之前完成的动作或存在的状态。
① Before we got to the train station, the train had already left.
我们到达火车站之前,火车就已经离开了。
② Before I could say “thank you”, he had run away.
我还没来得及说“谢谢”,他就跑开了。
2. 表示从过去某一时间开始,一直延续到过去的另一个时间的动作,常用的时间状语有by then, by the end of, by the time。
① By the end of last term, we had learnt 2,000 English words.
到上学期期末为止,我们已经学习了2,000个英语单词了。
② We had learnt English for 8 years by the last year.
到去年为止,我们已经学了8年英语了。
3. 表示愿望、打算等的动词,如hope, want, expect, think, mean, suppose, intend, plan等后接从句时,一般用过去完成时表示本打算实现而未实现的愿望和计划。
① I had intended to meet him at the airport, but I had an important meeting to attend.
我本打算去机场接他,但是我有个重要的会议要参加。
② I had hoped to take a holiday this year but I was not able to get away.
我原打算今年去度假,可是我走不开。
(1) It/That was+ the first/ second…+ time+ that从句,从句谓语常用过去完成时。
It was the first time that I had visited the Great Wall.
这是我第一次参观长城。
(2) It was+一段时间+since从句,从句谓语用过去完成时。
It was three years since he had joined the army.