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When do you have to use had been?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

"Had been" is the past perfect tense of the indicative mood. It is also the past tense of the subjunctive mood. In the indicative mood, we use the past perfect tense to talk about something that happened before something that happened in the past.

For example: Present tense: Today I amhappy.

Past tense: Yesterday I was happy.

Present perfect tense: Today I am sad, but I have been happy before.

Past perfect tense: Yesterday I was sad, but I had been happy before that. In the subjunctive mood, we use the past to talk about something that might have happened. For example: Present tense: If I were happy today, I would smile.

Past tense: If I had been happy yesterday, I would have smiled.

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