Past Perfect Tense Learn All English Tenses English grammar

By using the Past Perfect Tense, the speaker wants to emphasize that an action happened before some moment in the past or before another action in the past. For example: He was very happy because he had won the lottery Lets look at the actions described in this sentence: the man was happy in the past (This is Past time), because he won a lottery before (happened BEFORE he was happy in the past). Learn the following: The common situations when Past Perfect Tense is used. How the Past Perfect Tense is