Grammar Part 3 Past Perfect
Part 3: Past Perfect
| Sentence Types | Structures | Examples |
| Declarative Sentence
(ประโยคบอกเล่า) |
had + past participle | They had listened to the radio. |
| Negative Sentence
(ประโยคปฏิเสธ) |
had not + past participle | They hadn’t listened to the radio. |
| Interrogative Sentence
(ประโยคคำถาม) |
had… + past participle? | Had they listened to the radio?
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- We use the past perfect when we are talking about the past and want to mention something that happened earlier. (เราใช้ past perfect เมื่อพูดถึงอดีต และต้องการกล่าวถึงบางสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นก่อน)
Examples:
- His father was a composer and his grandfather had been a musician.
- When I arrived the party, George, had already gone
- James had made breakfast when we wake up.
- We use the past perfect to talk about an indefinite time before a particular point in the past, often with words like always, sometimes, never, before, by + fixed time. (เราใช้ past perfect
เมื่อพูดถึงเวลาที่ไม่แน่นอน ก่อนเวลาที่เฉพาะเจาะจงในอดีต โดยมักใช้คำเหล่านี้ในประโยค เช่น always, sometimes, never, before, by ตามด้วยเวลาที่เฉพาะเจาะจง)
Examples:
- By the time the boy was six, he had learned to ride a bicycle.
- I was very excited because I hadn’t flown