Verbs

Past perfect

Affirmative and negative

I/you/he/she/it/we/they

had (not)

visited the town before.

Question

Had

I/you/he/she/it/we/they

visited the town before?

The past perfect is used to talk about events and states that happen before a moment in the past.

• Gloria discovered that her sister had moved house.
• We had finished all the preparations by the time they arrived.