Unit 14 - Past Perfect (I had done)

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