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Lesson 7 — Past Tenses Cheat Sheet
In one line: Past Perfect exists to show which of two past events came first.
Forms
1Simple. V2. "He studied in Lahore."
2Continuous. was/were+V-ing. "I was eating dinner."
3Perfect. had+PP. Action before another past action.
4Perfect Continuous. had been+V-ing. Ongoing before a past moment.
Order-of-Events Example
By the time he arrived (Past Simple),
we had eaten (Past Perfect).
→ Eating happened FIRST.