Uses of the Past Perfect

PAST PERFECT ( I HAD LIVED )

It's formed by : HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE of main verb

Formado com: Had + Participio passado do verbo principal.

When I arrived at the airport , the plane had already gone (go)

Quando cheguei ao aeroporto , o avião já tinha partido.

I arrived late to the theater . The play had finished minutes before ( finish )

Use of this tense
Uso deste tempo

The Past Perfect is used to indicate an action , or state , that happened before an other action in the past ,or that continued till a certain moment in the past.

O Past Perfect é usado para indicar uma ação, ou estado, que aconteceu antes de uma outra ação no passado,ou que continuou ate certo momento no passado.

It was David's first time in an airplane . He was nervous because he hadn't flown before.

Era a primeira vez de David em um avião. Ele estava nervoso porque não tinha voado antes.

The past perfect ( I had done ) is the past of the present perfect ( I have done ) compare :

O past Perfect é o passado do Present Perfect. Compare:

The car is dirty . I haven' t washed it for weeks ( present )

O carro esta sujo . Eu não o tenho lavado há semanas.

The car was dirty . I hadn ' t washed it for weeks ( past )

O carro estava sujo . Eu não o tinha lavado há semanas.

With words like after , before , when , as soon as , is frequently used the Simple Past , but the Past Perfect is used to specify that when the second action happened the first was ended .
Com as palavras acima geralmente é usado o Past Simple, mas o Past Perfect é usado para especificar que uma segunda ação aconteceu depois que a primeira terminou.

Examples:

After the plane left , we went back home

Depois que o avião partiu , nós voltamos para casa.

After the plane had left , we went back home.

Depois que o avião tinha partido , nós voltamos para casa.

These are the normal forms- estas são as formas normais

pronoun	affirmative	negative	interrogative	interrog-negative
I	had lived	had not lived	had I lived ?	had I not lived ?
YOU	had lived	had not lived	had you lived ?	had you not lived ?
HE,SHE.IT	had lived	had not lived	had ( he,she it ) lived ?	had( he,she,it) not lived ?
WE	had lived	had not lived	had we lived ?	had we not lived ?
YOU	had lived	had not lived	had you lived ?	had you not lived ?
THEY	had lived	had not lived	had they lived ?	had they not lived ?

As it happens with all the other tenses , the contracted forms are normally used in the everyday conversation
Como acontece com todos os outros tempos, as formas contraídas são mais usadas no dia a dia.

These are the contracted forms - Estas são as formas contraídas

affirmative	negative	interrogative	interrogative - negative
I'd lived	I hadn't lived	had I lived ?	hadn't I lived ?
you'd lived	you hadn't lived	had you lived ?	hadn't you lived ?
he'd lived	he hadn't lived	had he lived ?	hadn't he lived ?
she'd lived	she hadn't lived	had she lived ?	hadn't she lived ?
it'd lived	it hadn' lived	had it lived ?	hadn't it lived ?
we'd lived	we had 't lived	had we lived ?	hadn't we lived ?
You’d lived	you hadn't lived	hadyou lived ?	hadn't you lived ?
they'd lived	they hadn't lived	had they lived ?	hadn't they lived ?

Compare these sentences –compare estas frases

Was Jennifer there when you arrived ? No , she had already gone home ( Past Perfect )

Jennifer estava lá quando você chegou ? Não , ela já tinha ido para casa

Was Jennifer there when you arrived ? Yes , but she went home soon afterwards ( Simple Past )

Jennifer estava lá quando voce chegou? Sim , mas ela foi para casa logo depois.

David wasn' t home when I phoned him . He was in Los Angeles ( Simple past )

David não estava em casa quando eu lhe telefonei . Ele estava em Los Angeles.

David had just got home when I phoned him . He had been in Los Angeles ( Past Perfect )

David tinha acabado de chegar em casa quando eu telefonei . Ele tinha estado em Los Angeles.

In the examples above , you can see the different use of the Past Perfect and the Simple Past.
Even in Portuguese the meaning of each use is different , OK?

Nos exemplos acima você tem o uso diferente do Past Perfect e do Simple Past.
Mesmo em português o significado é diferente,ok?

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