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What verb is for a past event that took place before another past event?

Past perfect is used to talk about something that happened in the past before something else that happened in the past.Past perfect is had + past participleThe army had won the war before it crossed the border.The event that happened after the first event is written using past simple.Another example: The train had left when I arrivedat the station.


What is the past tense and the past perfect tense?

Past simple tense has got one verb in the past form -- I went to the shop yesterday.Past perfect is formed with had + past participle -- I had gone to the shop.Past simple is used to talk about something that happened at a specific time in the past and is now finished.Past perfect is used to talk about an event in the past that happened before another event in the past. This second event is usually in past simple.Eg The train had left when I arrived at the station.had left (past perfect) happened before arrived(past simple).


What are the examples of past perfect simple tense?

Past perfect is formed using - had + past participle.had walked, had seen, had talked, had eaten.Past perfect is often used with past simple to talk about one event in the past that happened before another event in the past. egThe train had leftwhen I arrivedat the station.had left = past perfectarrived = past simple


How do you describe an event in simple past tense?

went


When do you use past perfect tense?

You use past perfect to talk about one event that happened in the past before another event in the past.Past perfect is had + past participle.The train had left when I arrived at the station.I arrived at the station is something that happened in the past (past simple).The train had left (past perfect) is the thing that happened before I arrived.