Past Perfect | MCQs

Explanation

She realized that she hadn't turned the lights off.

اسے احساس ہوا کہ اس نے لائٹ بند نہیں کی تھی۔

Hadn't is the best to keep the meaning of the original sentence.

Hadn't is a verb, used in past sentence

SH4-8-2023

Explanation

The past perfect tense is formed using:

had+past participle 

"had finished" →  past perfect

Other options:

(a) I have finished my work. → Present perfect

(b) I finished my work. → Simple past

(d) I was finishing my work. → Past continuous

Explanation

"Had been preparing" shows an ongoing action completed before another past event.

It indicates continuous preparation before the exam was postponed.

Explanation

 "They had eaten dinner before the movie started" is in the past perfect tense 

it indicates a completed action before another past event

indicate an action (eating dinner) that was completed before another action (the movie starting) in the past.

Explanation

Because it is a sentence of indirect narration

Explanation

The sentence "Ali had been walking three miles a day before she broke her leg" is in the past perfect continuous tense.

It showing an action (walking) that was ongoing before another past event (breaking her leg).

Explanation

The sentence "The patient had died before the doctor arrived" uses the past perfect tense.

مریض ڈاکٹر کے آنے سے پہلے ہی دم توڑ چکا تھا۔

It to indicate that one action (the patient dying) happened before another past action (the doctor arriving).

Explanation

The complete sentence would be: "After she had climbed the stairs, her heart almost gave out from exhaustion."

This uses the past perfect tense,

Indicating that the action of climbing the stairs was completed before the subsequent action (her heart almost giving out)

Explanation

• Shazia had opened the door before we arrived
• شازیہ ہمارے پہنچنے سے پہلے دروازہ کھول چکی تھی۔
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• Arrived is best to keep the meaning of the original sentence.
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• past tense and past participle form is had, so we use the second form of the verb "arrived"
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• he/she/it         arrives
• present participle  arriving
• past tense         arrived
• past participle arrived
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