Past perfect = had + participio: lo que había pasado antes de otra acción pasada.
Forma
- I’d finished · she hadn’t seen · Had you met…?
- ’d + participio = had · ’d + infinitivo = would
Uso en un relato
- Past continuous: escenario (It was raining…)
- Past simple: acciones principales
- Past perfect: antes (When I arrived, the film had started)
- by the time, before, after, already, never
Errores frecuentes
- «When I arrived, the film has started» ✗ → had started.
- «After he had eaten, he had gone to bed» ✗ → he went to bed.
- Confundir ’d (had) con ’d (would).