past perfect

How To Use past perfect In A Sentence

• The present and past perfect tenses both belong to the perfect tense.
• It encapsulates Jamaica's colonial past perfectly, as the fish (salted cod) would have been transported south in ships coming to collect sugar, while ackee, a savoury fruit, was introduced from West Africa.
• `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect
• 'I had just cooked' is an example of the past perfect, and 'I had just been cooking' is an example of the past perfect continuous.
• His latest ongoing play at the Centaur, Past Perfect, features, as usual, women squawking about their problems.
• Also involved was Past Perfect Productions, which reconstructs archaeological and historical sites through virtual reality.
• It encapsulates Jamaica's colonial past perfectly, as the fish (salted cod) would have been transported south in ships coming to collect sugar, while ackee, a savoury fruit, was introduced from West Africa.
• 'I had just cooked' is an example of the past perfect, and 'I had just been cooking' is an example of the past perfect continuous.