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Hello, welcome to six minute grammar with.
Me, Rob and me, Catherine.
Hello.
Today we're talking about the past perfect tense.
Yes, the past perfect.
When we want to talk about two things that happened at different times in the past, we can use the past perfect tense and that's a subject with had plus the past participle.
And here's Harry with our first example.
Mary rang John's doorbell at 815 yesterday, but John had gone to work.
And let's hear that again.
Mary rang John's doorbell at 815 yesterday, but John had gone to work.
Thanks, Harry.
Now we could put these two events in the past simple tense, something like this.
John went to work, then Mary rang John's doorbell.
And once again, Harry, John went to work.
Then Mary rang John's doorbell.
Or we can change the order of events in the sentence and use the past perfect that's had with the past participle to show which event actually happened first.
Mary rang John's doorbell at 815 yesterday, but John had gone to work.
And once again, Mary rang John's doorbell at 815 yesterday, but John had gone to work.