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<html><p><b><font face="arial">The past perfect simple is used to talk about actions and activities in the past. In the same way that the <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">present perfect simple </span>is connected to the present, the past perfect simple is related to a point in the past.</font></b><br></p> <p> </p></html> <html><p><b><font face="arial">The past perfect simple is used to talk about actions and activities which occurred sometime before a specified point in the past.</font></b><br></p> <p> </p></html>
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<html><P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 70.9pt"><strong><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang=EN-US>affirmative:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>subject + 'had' + past participle</SPAN></strong></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; tab-stops: 70.9pt"><strong><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I'<SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">d sent </SPAN>an email. </SPAN></strong></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 70.9pt"><strong><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang=EN-US>negative: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>subject + 'had' + 'not'+ past participle</SPAN></strong></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; tab-stops: 70.9pt"><strong><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">hadn't sent </SPAN>an email.</SPAN></strong></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 70.9pt"><strong><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang=EN-US>interrogative:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>'had' + subject + past participle</SPAN></strong></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; tab-stops: 70.9pt"><strong><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">Had</SPAN> you <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">sent </SPAN>