Past Perfect Tense Past Perfect Continuous Tense

3.7 Past Perfect Tense

As it has been mentioned in the present perfect tense that the action involves only one but here in the Past Perfect Tense the action involved are two events. Both of these events were completed in the past. The Use of Past Perfect Tense To state an event activity or action which is completed in the past before another event occurred. Example : I had eaten before you went out To change Direct speech into Indirect Speech if the statement is in Present Perfect Tense or Simple Past Tense. Example: He said, I came late Direct He said that he had come late. Sentence Pattern Sentence pattern with been 1. Positive Sentence : S+had+been+adjadvN Example : Mother had been fat. 2. Negative Sentence : S+had+not + been+adjadvN Example : Mother had not been fat 3. Interrogative Sentence : Had +S + been+adjadvN Example : Had Mother been fat? 4. Negative-interrogative Sentence: Had+not+ been+adjadvN Example : Universitas Sumatera Utara Hadnt Mother been fat? Sentence pattern with V3 1. Positive Sentence : S+had+V3 Example : Mother had become fat 2. Negative Sentence : S+had+not + V3 Example : Mother had not become fat. 3. Interrogative Sentence: Had +S 4- V3 Example : Had Mother become fat? The journalist of the Jakarta Post Newspaper in order to tell the news about the 51 Egypt were killed used one sentence of the Past Perfect Tense. The sentence is one army officer had been killed.

3.8 Past Perfect Continuous Tense

The actions described in Past Perfect Continuous Tense is similar to the Past Perfect Continuous Tense. The only difference is in the Continuous nature of the activity. Example: + The gang had been going. - The gang had not been going. ? Had the gang been going? -? Hadnt the gang been going? The use of Past Perfect Continuous Tense Universitas Sumatera Utara - To state an event, activity or action which are still in a continuous progress in the past time, usually it is limited by a certain duration of time. Example: She had been working for two hours. - To state a repetitive action which happened in the past time. Example: He had been correcting his mistakes: but he was always wrong. Sentence Pattern 1. Positive Sentence : S+had+been + V1 -ing Example : I had been working for two years, 2. Negative Sentence : S+had+not + been + V1-ing Example : I had not been working for two years. 3. Interrogative sentence : Had + S+ been + V1-ing Example : I had been working for two years? 4 Negative-interrogative sentence : Had. + S+not + been. + VI –ing Example: Had not I been working for two years? There is no example of Past Perfect Continuous Tense used in the news. Universitas Sumatera Utara

3.9 Future Tense