Past Perfect Tense

Perfect Past Tense- Completed Action

In Perfect Past  Tense, the verb shows the completed action before the time of speaking in the past. In this tense, the past tense of ‘have’, that is ‘had’ is used with the past participle of a verb.

Use of have in the perfect past tense

• In this sentence, we should use the form of ‘have’ in the past tense.
• There is only one past form of have, and that is- had.

In this sentence–

• The subject doesn’t matter.
• For first, second as well as third person, we use ‘had’.

Now, we shall take an example with three persons in tabular form.

Perfect Past Tense- Example

Here, we have taken an example using 1st, 2nd and 3rd person with singular as well as plural number.
Have a look-

Person	Singular Number	Plural Number
1st	I had sung a song.	We had sung a song.
2nd	You had sung a song.	You had sung a song.
3rd	He had sung a song.	They had sung a song.
	She had sung a song.	They had sung a song.
	It had sung a song.	They had sung a song.

You may also like the related links to past tense-

Simple

Continuous

Perfect Imperfect

Uses of the present tense