Past perfect: form and use

FORM AND USE:

It is used for actions that start in the past and continue up to a given time in the past:

• I had finished the article when they said it was dinner time.
• Yesterday evening at nine o'clock I had already finished the videogame.
• She hadn't arrived when we phoned.

Also in 3rd type conditional sentences:

• If you had asked me, I wouldn't have let you go.
• We wouldn't have solved the quiz if they hadn't helped us.

EXERCISES:
PAST PERFECT:

• Perfect English Grammar
  
• Ego 4 You
• Oxford University Press
• Englisch Hilfen - statements
• Englisch Hilfen - negatives
• Englisch Hilfen - questions
• Englisch Hilfen - mix

PAST PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE:

• Ego 4 You - 1
• Ego 4 You - 2
• Ego 4 You - 3
• Ego 4 You - 4
• Focus (don't use contractions)
• English 4 You
• English 4 You - 2
• English 4 You - 3