the past perfect
Today I am studying about "the past perfect".
I don't know why This grammar was difficult.
So I made sentence to use the past perfect.
Could you check this sentence?
Please help.
The past perfect = had + the past participle
① When I had arrived grocery store, Katsu has sold out.
※ Katsu means pork cutlet.
This is delicious food.
If you don't understand "Katsu "
Would you check this word in internet.
And this is my true story.
To speaking English is very important. But I don't use internet at home . So i don't use Skype, line , ...that is too bad. Now, to use the internet, I'm at Starbucks and use their free WiFi. And
I started to talking to myself in English, Pls let me know if you know of any better way the mentioned above.
....What do you think about this?
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The past perfect
Today I am studying "the past perfect".I don't know why this part of grammar was difficult.
So I made sentences using the past perfect.
Could you check them, please?
The past perfect = had + the past participle
① When I arrived at the grocery store, Katsu had sold out.
※ Katsu means pork cutlet.
This is delicious food.
If you don't understand "Katsu " you can check this word out on the internet.
And this is my true story.
To speak English is very important but I don't use the internet at home so I don't use Skype, line , ...that is too bad. Now, to use the internet I'm at Starbucks and use their free WiFi. And
I started to talk to myself in English. Please let me know if you know of any better way than that mentioned above.
....What do you think about this?
I think it was very well written!
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You wrote:
① When I had arrived grocery store, Katsu has sold out.Actually, Yuki, the correct use of the past perfect would be:
"When I arrived at the grocery store, Katsu had sold out."
This is because the past perfect situation always happens before the other past situation. So, in your example, the Katsu sold out before you arrived at the store. A clearer example would be:
“I had turned off the lights before I went to bed.” (So you turned off the lights, and then you went to bed.)
Native English speakers are using the past perfect less and less as the years go by. For example, in my sentence above you could also simply say, “I turned off the lights before I went to bed.” The word before makes it clear which happened first and which happened second, so the past perfect really isn’t necessary. Likewise, your sentence could also be written as, “The Katsu sold out before I arrived at the grocery store."
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