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.
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  • 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.

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