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· with words like ‘just’, ‘already’ and ‘yet’.
· Don’t forget to revise your lessons.

· Already means that something happened sooner than expected.
· Yet means until now. It is normally used in questions and negative sentences.

Read the following examples:
1. I have just arrived at my home.

2. The gatekeeper has closed the doors of the school.

3. I’ve just gone through your letter. It’s very well written.
4. I’ve already revised them.

5. Has the teacher arrived yet?
6. Have you ever been to Goa?

We often get confused about when to use simple past tense
or present perfect tense. No time expression is
used denoting the past
Simple past tense is used when a past action is not linked
with the present perfect
with the present. Present perfect tense is used when a past
tense.
action is linked with the present.

G Forms of Past Perfect Tense.
Question

I, we had I, we
you ’d you
he, she had not spoken. Had he, she spoken?
it, they hadn’t it, they

G Uses of Past Perfect Tense .

It is used to —

· to express an action completed before a given moment in the past.

· with verbs such as ‘hope’, ‘expect’, ‘mean’, ‘think’, ‘want’, ‘suppose’, etc. to
suggest that an expected past action did not take place.

Read the following examples:
1. The letter came after he had left the office.

2. I had thought of eating snacks with my friends. (but I didn’t)

3. We had hoped that India would win the match. (but it didn’t)

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