Welcome to an a to z grammar lesson.
Today we're going to talk about something that can be kind of tricky, even for native speakers, which is the past perfect sense.
And Jack, the past perfect sense is something that, you know, we've always got students asking questions about because it's a bit strange, right?
Yeah.
And the past perfect is basically, it's when we're looking at actions that have happened in the past in relation to each other.
So what happened?
1st, 2nd, or third?
Right.
And it also, it's one of those grammar points that you don't have to use.
Like, you could just say, first, I did this and second, I did this.
And it has the same meaning, but native speakers don't talk like that.
So we use the past person, and.
Having this, it's a better way to make longer compound sentences.
Now, for the grammar.
For it, it's very simple.
It's the have or has or had.
Actually, it's always had.
I had done something.
So it's that verb have has, but in the past tense.
So I had.