Unit 14 - Past Perfect (I had done)

英語学習 はてなDUO

had + past participleで過去完了形を作ります。

Sometimes we talk about something that happened in the past:

  • Sarah got to the party.

This is the starting point of the story. THen, if we want to talk about things that happened before this time, we use the past perfect (had done)

  • When Sarah fot to the party, Eric had already gone home.

過去の事について話している時に、さらにそれよりも過去の事に着いて言及したい時に過去完了形を使います。過去に対して「大過去」とかって習った事あるような気がします。

例文

  • When we got home last night, we found that somebody had broken into our aprtment.
  • Karen didn't want to go to the movies with us because she had already seen the film.

比べてみよう。過去完了形と現在完了形。

  • Who is that woman? I have never seen her before.
  • I didn't know who she was. I'd never seen her before. (= before that time)
  • We are not hungry. We have just had lunch.
  • We were not hungry. We had just had lunch.

比べてみよう。過去完了形と過去形。

  • "Was Ben at the party when you got there?" "No, he had already gone home."
  • "Was Ben at the party when you got there?" "Yes, but he went home soon afterward."
  • Amy had just gotten home when I phoned. She had been at her mother's.
  • Amy wasn't at home when I phoned. She was at her mother's.

単語

offer

present or proffer (something) for (someone) to accept or reject as so desired

時制変化

come - came - come
write - wrote - written

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英語学習 はてなDUO

allegro2006-01-30


今日は現在完了形をメインに。

present perfect

Ex)

  • I have done this month.
    • Today is almost end of this month, but we use "present perfect".
  • I did last month.
  • I have drunk two cops of coffee so far today.

"so far today" means until now from begining of today.

in/on/at

in January 15th.(day)
on January. (month)
at 4 o'clock. (time)
last year
today

last year / in the last year

last yearは去年。つまり、今から見てlast yearは2005年。
in the last yearは、今日を含んで過去一年間。

つまり、last yearは過去形。in the last yearは現在完了形。分かるか、そんなもん。

Language group

  • Germanic
    • German, English, Dutch
  • Romance (Latine)
    • French, Portiguase, Spanish, Italian

フランス語には現在完了に相当するものが無いらしい。それは意外だ、と言った所、どうも語族(ていうんだっけ？)が違うらしい。そうだったのか。どこらへんで別れたんだろね。