Past Perfect

Past Perfect Tense adalah bentuk kata kerja yang digunakan untuk:
  1. Mengambarkan tindakan yang telah terjadi di masa lampau sebelum tindakan lampau yang lain. Past Perfect Tense berhubungan dengan Past Tense dan biasanya menggunakan konjungsi waktu (kata penghubung waktu) (By the time we arrived, my uncle had gone: Pada saat kami tiba, pamanku pergi)
  2. Past Perfect Tense bisa juga digunakan untuk tindakan sebagai berikut:
  • Tindakan yang dimulai pada waktu berbicara di masa lampau dan masih berlanjut pada waktu itu (I had lived in New York since I was child: saya telah tinggal di New York sejak saya kecil)
  • Tindakan yang dimulai sebelum waktu berbicara di masa lampau dan berhenti di masa itu atau sebelumnya. (John had waited for an hour was very angry with his sister when she eventually turned up: John sangat marah telah menunggu adiknya selama satu jam, ketika akhirnya dia muncul)
  • Tindakan yang dimulai sebelum waktu berbicara di masa lampau dan berhenti beberapa saat sebelum waktu berbicara (He had served in the army for ten years then he retired and married: Dia bertugas di militer selama 10 tahun kemudian dia pensiun dan menikah)
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Rumus Past Perfect Tense
Affirmative
Subject + had + Verb3
I had waited
You/They/We had gone
He/she/my friend/ had studied English
Negative
Subject + had + not + Verb3
had not eaten rice
You/They/We had not gone
He/she/my friend/ had not studied English
Interrogative
Had + subject +  verb3
Had I eaten rice?
Had You/They/We gone?
Had He/she/my friend/ studied English?
Negative interrogative
Had + not + subject +  verb3

Had not I eaten rice?
Had not You/They/We gone?
Had not He/she/my friend/ studied English?

Catatan
Bentuk Singkatan:

I had              : I’d
You had         : You’d
We had          : We’d
They had        : They’d
He had           : He’d
She had          : She’d
Had not          : hadn’t
Had not          : hadn’t

Bentuk Short Answer Qusetion
Past Perfect
Tense
Question
Short Answer
Complete Answer
Had you eaten?
Yes I had
No, I had not
Yes I had eaten
No, I had not eaten
Had he studied English?
Yes he had
No, he had not
Yes he had studied English
No, he had not studied English