Past Perfect Use the right form of the verbs in brackets Comment on the use of the Past Perfect in the following sentences The policeman asked if there had been any witnesses By the time we got to the shopping centre it had closed The students had written the test and were then checking them up She complained that she was penniless as she had spent all her money It turned out that Dick was ill and he had been ill for a fortnight Hardly had I turned on the television, when I heard shocking news By next morning, the snow that had begun in the night had turned into a blizzard so thick that the last class of the term was cancelled She had a stock of excuses, as usual, when in fact she had overslept as usual 10 We learnt that they had been close friends for many years Each sentence has one mistake Write the correct sentences He won lots of awards by the time he was 16 I’m sorry, I tried to phone but you already left By the time he was 14 he had already wrote his first book He had knew where to go because he had been there before She became famous she had made her first invention Use the right form of the verbs in brackets – Past Simple or Past Perfect She (talk) about the party she (arrange) for the children who (attend) her Sunday-school classes Jack and Amelia were the only family she ever (have) She got dressed in the cotton shorts and top she (wear) the day before Mari glanced over at the clock It (be) nearly nine She recently (learn) to tell the time It was lovely to hear her laugh again He not (hear) her laugh in years The prisoner (spend) almost a month digging a tunnel before the guards (discover) it He said he (be) awfully sorry for the things he (do) She seated herself in the chair Bill (pull) out for her Roger guessed that she just (make) a dreadful slip of the tongue 10 Before the mid-nineteenth century, no dentist (use) anesthesia Choose the right variant The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we built/ had built She didn’t ride/ hadn’t ridden a horse before that day After she had given/ gave the note to the front desk, her son led her outside She sat staring at the page she had written/ wrote last night in New York It was /had been a long time since I had seen/ saw him in such a difficult mood Which of the following things have you done by your sixteenth birthday? Use the Past Perfect tense to answer Model: By my sixteenth birthday, I had smoked cigarettes and decided that I was never going to smoke again learn to drive go on my first date study physics fall in love have my first kiss learn how to support myself live apart from my parents learn to speak another language