Past Perfect Tense, Türkçede var olmayan fakat anlaması oldukça basit olan bir zamandır. Geçmişte yaşanmış olan iki olaydan önce yaşanmış olanı için kullanılır. Daha da açıklamak gerekirse: “Kolumu kırdım ve doktora gittim.” cümlesinde, kol kırma eylemi, doktora gitme eyleminden daha önce yaşandığı için Past Perfect Tense ile kurulur. Doktora gitme eylemi, daha sonra yaşandığı için Past Tense ile kurulur. Kısa Past Perfect Tense, yaşanan iki eylem arasında, zamansal bir bağ kurar. Bazı durumlarda mişli geçmiş zaman olarak da kullanılabilir. Yapısal olarak da oldukça basittir.
Olumlu cümle yapısı:
I/You/We/They + had + V3
He/She/It + had + V3
Olumsuz cümle yapısı:
I/You/We/They + had not (hadn’t) + V3
He/She/It + had not (hadn’t) + V3
Soru cümle yapısı:
Had + I/You/We/They + V3
Had + He/She/It + V3
Past Perfect Tense’i, başlıca olarak, zaman sıralaması yaparken, kronolojik olarak önce gelen eylemi yazarken kullanırız.
My father had left when I came home.
As soon as he had won the lottery, he bought a house.
After I had tried out the pepper spray in the house, our eyes itched for days.
I got pulled over by the police a day after I had gotten my driver’s license.
It had been three hours when we noticed that my nephew was gone.
Eğer iki olay arasında kayda değer bir zaman farkı yoksa, iki tarafta da Simple Past Tense kullanabiliriz.
As soon as I saw him, I said hi.
She looked at me when he passed me with her car.
They liked the idea when they heard about it.
Mahmut called me as soon as he got lost.
The lights stayed on a second after the electricity went out.
Past Perfect Tense, tek başına, mişli geçmiş zamanda kurduğumuz cümleleri anlatmak için de kullanabilir.
I had already cleaned the house.
You had washed your car.
We had seen him before.
I had met Carlos back in college.
You had promised not to be late.
We had not seen that movie before.
Kyle had never been to Mexico.
EXAMPLE
They had been here for two days.
He had had the car since Monday.
She’d read two books.
It’d always rained a lot in London.
He had already taken out the trash.
He had waled to school.
It had not rained.
They had not studied.
My father had given me money before my travel.
The experts had warned the people about global warming.
My mother had taught me swimming.
Had I come?
Had you eaten?
Had she gone?
Had it rained?
She had met him back in college.
The plane had left by the time I got to the airport.
I had written the email before he apologised.
Kate had wanted to see the movie, but she arrived too late.
We were able to stay at the hotel since we had reserved a room in advance.
She had been to the symphony only once before.
Marc knew Philadelphia so well because he had lived there for five years.
He understood the math test because he had been tutored all week.
I did not have any cash because I had lost my purse.
I had been to Mexico once before.
If I had seen him, I would have told him the news.
Before he did his homework, he had stayed after school for help.
The cat had chased the bird before it flew out of the yard.
We had just called home when my mom texted us about returning the car.
She had visited several doctors before she found out what the problem was with her hand.
If we had called ahead, we would not have needed to wait so long for a table.
She had lived in California before moving to Texas.
She’d lived in California before moving to Texas.
She stayed up all night because she had received bad news.
They won many of the games because they had practiced.
Anthony had met Ryan before you introduced him to us at the party.
You had studied Italian before you moved to Rome.
She had just left the scene when the ambulance arrived.
He had just put the dog on the leash when we got there.
The bus had just left when we got to the stop.
I had just gone outside when it started to rain.
You had not asked me for permission before going out.
I had never seen such a beautiful sunset.
She had established her company before 2008.
He had never played football until last week.
They had gotten engaged before last year.
I had fallen asleep before eight o’clock.
The teacher asked if I had studied for the exam.
The usher reminded us that we had paid for different tickets.
My neighbour asked if Tim had seen her dog.
The boss said that we had done a wonderful job on the presentation.