Past Perfect - Put the Words in Order - Part 16

Put the words the right order and make sentences in the past perfect

..... when uncle Bill came

finished

hadn't

lunch

Rule: Past Perfect ShowHide

had + 3rd form

The earlier of two past actions: one thing had already happened before another thing in the past.

After they had sold their car, they bought a motorbike.
Laurence had lived in New York before he moved to London.

negative hadn't: The lawyer hadn't received the letter when we spoke to him.
question Had …? Had you read the book before?

Past Perfect or Past Simple

The Past Simple tells the story in order; the Past Perfect steps back to something earlier.

When we arrived, the film started. (we arrived, then it started)
When we arrived, the film had started. (it started first – we missed the beginning)

before · after · when · by the time · as soon as · until · already · just · never … before

If you tell events in the order they happened, you don't need the Past Perfect: I read the book and then saw the film. Use it when you go back in time: I saw the film. I had read the book before.

Twenty pictures and twenty sentences to build. The order is always the same: who, then had, then the third form of the verb.