Past perfect
1) I had studied history before maths.
2) You had bought a car but now you don't have it.
3) He had done his task until the end.
4) She had painted her room before to go on holidays.
5) We can eat an apple because we had done the medical exams.
6) Had they taken the right way?
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The past perfect is a view from the past of something which had taken place earlier so these sentence as a whole should not use the past perfect.
It is difficult to correct isolated sentences like these because the context (in time) needs to be clear. Can I suggest that you write a piece of continuous prose set in the past and use the past perfect within it. For example:-
Last year I went to Venice. I had been there before so knew where to go. I found the same restaurant where I had eaten on my earlier visit but it was not open. The man in the next shop told me that it had closed the year before because the owner had died.
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