STRUCTURE (Chapter 3)

 Past Perfect Tense

A. Pengertian Past Perfect Tense

Past Perfect Tense adalah tense yang berfungsi untuk menggambarkan suatu kegiatan yang telah terjadi di masa lalu. Dikatakan Past karena terjadi di masa lalu, dan dikatakan perfect karena pekerjaannya telah usai/selesai dilakukan.

B. Rumus Past Perfect Tense

Bentuk	Rumus		Contoh
+	Verbal	S + had + Verb-3	We had announced before we seized that house.
	Nominal	S  + had + been + nominal	We had been a good team.
–	Verbal	S + had + not + Verb-3	I had not got married when you were 9 years old.
	Nominal	S + had + not + been + nominal	Zidane had not been a football player in 1980.
?	Verbal	Had + S + Verb-3?	Had you transferred the money yesterday morning?
	Nominal	Had + S + been?	Had she been crazy like this last year?

C. Fungsi Past Perfect Tense

1. Untuk menggambarkan sebuah pekerjaan yang telah terjadi pada masa lalu.
   Contoh:
• They had gone to London yesterday morning.
• My father had not married my mother when they worked in PT. Asian
  
  
2. Untuk membuat conditional sentence type 2 berpasangan dengan past future tense.
   Contoh:
• I would play football if I I had had my own leg.
• If you had got a job before we married, we would not suffer like this.
  
  
3. Untuk menggambarkan kegiatan yang telah terjadi sebelum kegiatan lainnya pada masa lampau.
   Contoh:
• Dutch had colonized Indonesia before Japanese.
• I had not turned off the TV before I slept last night.

D.  Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Tense.

1. Having cleaned the floor, my mother fixed her phone.
2. I had told you many times when you asked me about her.
3. I refused to go to KFC yesterday because I wasn’t hungry. I had eaten.
4. I would have got all the chances if you had helped me that time.
5. If I had come to the meeting I would have been promoted.
6. Mr. John had already scrub the wall before he painted it yesterday.
7. I had arrived in the airport before your plane landed.
8. I burned the garbage after I had pour the oil on it.
9. It had been long time after we met at Jogja several years ago.
10.  Why did you left me without telling me after I had accompany you for 3 hours at Solo.
11. My grandmother had been burried before I could see her for the last time.
12. My mother had prepared all of my needs before I went to Bandung.
13. I had copied all documents before you burned them last week.
14. I lost my data since my notebook had been off before I charged it.
15. My home had been built before I got this job