QUÁ KHỨ HOÀN THÀNH/QUÁ KHỨ HOÀN THÀNH TIẾP DIỄN THÌ QUÁ KHỨ HOÀN THÀNH Thì quá khứ hoàn thành diễn tả 1 hành động đã xảy ra và kết thúc trong quá khứ trước 1 h ành động khác cũng xảy ra và kết thúc trong quá khứ. CHỦ TỪ + HAD + QUÁ KHỨ PHÂN TỪ I had just finished watering the lawn when it began to rain. She had studied English before she came to the U.S. After he had eaten breakfast, he went to school. THÌ QUÁ KHỨ HOÀN THÀNH TIẾP DIỄN Cụm và từ ngữ chỉ thời gian: Until then, by the time, prior to that time, before, after We had been living in Santa Ana for 2 years before we moved to Garden Grove. Dùng thì quá khứ hoàn thành cho hành động thứ nhất. Dùng thì quá khứ cho hành động thứ hai. Mẹo: Quí vị có thể nhớ theo cách này. Chữ cái tiếng Anh A B C "A" đứng vị trí thứ nhất và "A" là chữ cái đầu tiên của chữ "After". Cho nên After + hành động thứ nhất. Trước tiên: Alex had gone to bed. Sau đó': He couldn't sleep. After Alex had gone to bed, he couldn't sleep. Trước tiên: Jessica had cooked dinner. Sau đó': Her boyfriend came. Jessica's boyfriend came after she had cooked dinner. "B" đứng ở vị trí thứ hai, và "B" là chữ cái đầu tiên của chữ "Before". Cho nên Before + hành động thứ 2. Trước tiên: Kimberly had taken the test. Sau đó': She went home yesterday. Kimberly had taken the test before she went home yesterday. Trước tiên: Brandon had brushed his teeth. Sau đó': He went to bed. Before Brandon went to bed, he had brushed his teeth. PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TÓM TẮT: Ðể diễn tả một hành động kéo dài, ÐÃ CHẤM DỨT ở một thời diểm trong quá khứ. Không có Past perfect progressive cho "To be". "Had been Being" được diễn tả bằng "Had been" . *** THE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE indicates a continuous action that was completed at some point in the past. This tense is formed with the modal "HAD" plus "BEEN," plus the present participle of the verb (with an -ing ending): "I had been working in the garden all morning. George had been painting his house for weeks, but he finally gave up." I hadn't been going You hadn't been going He hadn't been going We hadn't been going You hadn't been going They hadn't been going To say how long st had been happening before something else happened It had been raining (the sun was shining and the ground was wet it had stopped raining. ) I was very tired when I arrived home , I had been working hard all day He was out of breath . He had been running The house was quiet when I got home. Everybody had gone to bed. Tom wasn't there when I arrived : he had just gone out The man was a complete st ranger to me . I had never seen before. Bill no longer had his car: he had sold it NOTE: There is no past perfect progressive for the "to be" verb. "Had been being" is expressed simply as "had been": "We had been successful before, but we somehow lost our knack." . QUÁ KHỨ HOÀN THÀNH/QUÁ KHỨ HOÀN THÀNH TIẾP DIỄN THÌ QUÁ KHỨ HOÀN THÀNH Thì quá khứ hoàn thành diễn tả 1 hành động đã xảy ra và kết thúc trong quá khứ trước 1 h ành động. before she came to the U.S. After he had eaten breakfast, he went to school. THÌ QUÁ KHỨ HOÀN THÀNH TIẾP DIỄN Cụm và từ ngữ chỉ thời gian: Until then, by the time, prior to that time, before,. Santa Ana for 2 years before we moved to Garden Grove. Dùng thì quá khứ hoàn thành cho hành động thứ nhất. Dùng thì quá khứ cho hành động thứ hai. Mẹo: Quí vị có thể nhớ theo cách này.