past perfect simple affirmative – English Grammar Profiler

Here are examples of past perfect simple affirmative:

Instead, the Ryans had decided to take a more old-fashioned route.

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I must say I‘d hoped for better.

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In the English Grammar Profile, B1 points 34 in the category of PAST are defined as:

past perfect simple: a time before another time in the past.

and B1 point 38 in the category of PAST is defined as:

past perfect simple affirmative

A search in iWeb for:

_NN _VHD _VVN

1 TIME HAD COME 3284
2 TIME HAD PASSED 1468
3 YEARS HAD PASSED 1385 4 FATHER HAD DIED 937 5 PEOPLE HAD DIED 917 6 CANCER HAD SPREAD 906 7 MOTHER HAD DIED 897

8 THINGS HAD CHANGED 792

9 WAR HAD ENDED 663

The American Civil War had ended a few years prior.

10 THINGS HAD GONE 656
11 FAMILY HAD MOVED 640 12 ANALYSTS HAD EXPECTED 584 13 PEOPLE HAD COME 577

14 SUN HAD SET 541

15 DAYS HAD PASSED 534 16 LORD HAD SAID 518 17 FATHER HAD GIVEN 502 18 MINUTES HAD PASSED 500 19 PEOPLE HAD GATHERED 494 20 MONTHS HAD PASSED 488 21 DUST HAD SETTLED 482

22 LIFE HAD BECOME 447

23 HUSBAND HAD DIED 434

24 CROWD HAD GATHERED 418

25 HOURS HAD PASSED 415

26 THING HAD HAPPENED 414

27 PEOPLE HAD SEEN 408 28 LORD HAD COMMANDED 406 29 WIFE HAD DIED 392 30 FAMILY HAD LIVED 381

31 SON HAD DIED 379

32 TEAM HAD WON 369

33 ECONOMISTS HAD EXPECTED 366 34 COURT HAD RULED 366

35 CANCER HAD RETURNED 362

36 LIFE HAD CHANGED 362

37 THINGS HAD HAPPENED 358

38 PEOPLE HAD SIGNED 354 39 YEAR HAD PASSED 353 40 PEOPLE HAD HEARD 352 41 WORLD HAD CHANGED 348 42 PEOPLE HAD MADE 346 43 FATHER HAD LEFT 344 44 WAR HAD BEGUN 336 45 TIME HAD ELAPSED 332

46 POPULATION HAD GROWN 320

47 NUMBER HAD GROWN 318 48 PEOPLE HAD TAKEN 318

49 COMPANY HAD MADE 316

50 SNOW HAD FALLEN 315 51 LORD HAD GIVEN 314 52 MOTHER HAD GIVEN 307 53 PARENTS HAD DIED 307 54 NUMBER HAD RISEN 306

55 PEOPLE HAD LOST 304

56 MOTHER HAD TOLD 299 57 NUMBER HAD INCREASED 296 58 FATHER HAD PASSED 294 59 RAIN HAD STOPPED 290 60 GOVERNMENT HAD MADE 288 61 PEOPLE HAD LEFT 286 62 STUDIES HAD SHOWN 286 63 MAN HAD GONE 285 64 MOTHER HAD LEFT 283 65 DOCTOR HAD TOLD 282 66 NUMBER HAD DROPPED 282 67 YEARS HAD ELAPSED 279 68 MAN HAD DIED 276 69 RESEARCH HAD SHOWN 274

70 PEOPLE HAD BECOME 268

71 THINGS HAD GOTTEN 268 72 FATHER HAD MADE 265 73 PEOPLE HAD GONE 264

74 HEART HAD STOPPED 263

75 FIGURE HAD RISEN 260 76 CHILDREN HAD DIED 259 77 FRIEND HAD TOLD 255 78 FATHER HAD TAKEN 254

79 GOVERNMENT HAD FAILED 253

80 FATHER HAD TOLD 253

81 PATIENTS HAD RECEIVED 251

82 BABY HAD DIED 250 83 TEAM HAD MADE 250 84 FAMILY HAD GONE 249 85 TRUMP HAD ASKED 249 86 SITUATION HAD BECOME 248 87 WORLD HAD SEEN 240

88 RAIN HAD FALLEN 239

89 SUN HAD RISEN 237 90 WEEKS HAD PASSED 236 91 COURT HAD HEARD 234 92 CHILD HAD DIED 234 93 PEOPLE HAD SAID 234 94 PEOPLE HAD TOLD 234 95 HOUR HAD PASSED 231 96 INCIDENT HAD OCCURRED 230 97 MOTHER HAD MADE 226 98 DAY HAD COME 225 99 BROTHER HAD DIED 225

100 PARTIES HAD AGREED 225

A2 vocabulary:

agreed, become, company, crowd, ended, failed, fallen, grown, happened, heart, lost, moved, passed, received, returned, set, team, war, won

When I had studied the eight parts of speech in that eighth grade class, we had spent a week on each.

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