Colorful Ideas

I/You/They/We/She/He/It  had eaten......


The past perfect expresses an activity that was completed before another activity or time in the past (past of the past)

 i.e. 1. My prents had already eaten by the time I got home.
       2. Until yesterday, I had never heard about it.
       3. I had never seen such a beautiful beach before I went to Singkawang.
       4. Had Revalda ever studied Japanesse before he moved to Japan?
       5. She only understood the movie because she had read the book.
       6. We were not able to get a seat because we had not booked in advance.



  "A little better than none"

-c_i-

Past Continous Tense

Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action.
It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.
i.e. The door was broken.
     From the sentence above, the focus is on the fact that the door was broken. I do not know, however, who did it.