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Hello. This is Jack from tofluency.com, and in this English lesson, I'm going to
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give you some past perfect examples.
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It's not going to be an in-depth
tutorial on the past perfect but these
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examples are going to help you better
understand how to use this tense. The first
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example I want to show you is from one
of my other videos so let's watch that now...
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I had never been to Paris before so I
was excited about that too. In the video
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I said, "I had never been to Paris before."
Now, to give you some context I was
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talking about the first time I went to
Paris and you can see the link in the
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description that shows you this video in
full - but in a nutshell, in summary, I went
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traveling to the United States and I had
a connecting flight in paris. They
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canceled my flight so I had to stay in
Paris for two days. Before this
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experience, I had never been to Paris
before. So, we use of past perfect when
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we're talking about the past
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of the past - what had happened before a
certain time in the past. So, here is a
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full example showing you this. "Before I
started my adventure I had never been to
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Paris before." "Before I started my
adventure, I had never been to Paris
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before." So, let's have a look at some more examples now... "My wife had already been to
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the UK before she met me. So, the past of
the past she already had this experience
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of visiting the UK before she met me. "The film had already started when we arrived."
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The film had already started when we
arrived." "She didn't answer the phone
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because she had gone to the gym." "She
didn't answer the phone because she had
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gone to the gym." "It was sad to sell the
house because we had owned it for 25
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years." This last example... we're talking
about something that happens over a
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certain amount of time - a duration
in the past before something else in the
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past. The duration is we had owned the
house for 25 years. Something else in the
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past: it was sad to sell the house. So,
hopefully that's given you
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some more examples and helps you
understand the past perfect a little
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better. If you have any questions then
please leave them below this video.
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Thank you for watching and I'll see you
next time!
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