Past Perfect Tense

  Past perfect tense adalah tense yang digunakan untuk menyatakan suatu kejadian atau kegiatan yang telah selesai terjadi lebih awal dari simple past.(Past tense perfect tense is used to express an event or activity that has been completed earlier than simple past. )

Rumus / Formula: Subject + Had + Verb III + Object / Complement
Bentuk / Pattern: Subject + Had + Verb III + Object / Complement + before + S. Past

Examples:

1. I had just  collected the money before you came 
2. You had just taken his pen before it lost
3. You had just rung the bell before the headmaster arrived
4. They had just done their homework before I came in
5. The baby had just woken up before his mother woke him

Look for a moment at these two sentences.!

   Ali learned English. He came to England.
Kedua kalimat terjadi di masa lalu, jadi kita menggunakan simple past tense belajar dan datang.Tapi bagaimana kalau kita ingin sepatu yang salah satu dari tindakan ini terjadi sebelum yang lainnya. Misalkan kita ingin mengatakan bahwa sebelum ia datang ke Inggris, Ali belajar bahasa Inggris, maka kita menggunakan Past Perfect Tense untuk tindakan mengambil tempat pertama, dan kami menggunakan Past Tense Simple untuk tindakan lain. Kita mengatakan:

{Both these sentences took place in the past, so we use the simple past tense learned and came.
But suppose we want to shoe that one of these actions took place before the other one. Suppose we want to say that before he came to England, Ali learned English, then we use the Past Perfect Tense for the action took place first, and we use the Simple Past Tense for the other action. We say}
" Ali had learned English before he came to England.