The Perfect Tenses Part 2. The Past Perfect Tense

The perfect way to talk about the great accomplishments of your great grandparents!

What you'll learn

Use the past perfect tense in the proper contexts

Ask questions using the perfect tense.

Properly place adverbs and adjectives in a past perfect sentence to add descriptive detail.

Define, conjugate and use past participles as verbs and adjectives.

Communicate the emotional value of an experience along with the relevant information itself.

Requirements

Students take my course, The Perfect Tenses: Part 1, before taking Part 2.

Description

The perfect tenses let you tell people what you care about! They are essential to effective communication. Learning these tenses allows you to do more than report a story. It lets you express your connection to the story you are telling.Hello and welcome to my mini-course on English grammar. In this course I teach you all about the present perfect tense! This course is the 2nd part of my series called The Perfect Tenses. I recommend that you study the first part before doing this course. I enjoy creating courses on the English language for all learners. In this course I'll cover the present perfect tense, when to use it, what it can mean, and how to combine it with adverbs and adjectives.This course will answer all the questions you might have about the perfect tenses. It will show students how to add adjectives, adverbs, questions, and activities to the present perfect. It will provide lots of examples, along with assignments that will let you prove to yourself that you understand the concepts.This course is designed for all learners but it's helpful to have level A2 or B1 in English, before starting this course. I hope you enjoy the course and I welcome feedback on my profile.

Overview

Section 1: The Past Perfect Tense: Introduction:

Lecture 1 Introduction to the Past Perfect Tense

Section 2: Types of Usage for the Past Perfect

Lecture 2 Types of Usage for the Past Perfect Tense

Lecture 3 Assignment: Usage of Past Perfect

Lecture 4 Summary / Cheat Sheet for the Past Perfect Tense

Section 3: Structures and Contractions for the Past Perfect

Lecture 5 Structures and Contractions for the Past Perfect

Lecture 6 Assignment: Confirmation Questions:

Section 4: How to use 'been' in the Past Perfect

Lecture 7 How to use 'been' with the Past Perfect

Lecture 8 Assignment: Using "had been in" and "had been to"

Lecture 9 Assignment: Past Perfect Continuous

Section 5: Past Participles with the Past Perfect

Lecture 10 Understanding the Past Participles

Lecture 11 2 Assignments using Past Participles and Regular Adjectives

Section 6: Other Topics Related to the Past Perfect Tense

Lecture 12 Other topics in connection with the Past Perfect

Lecture 13 Assignment: Inserting Adverbs

Lecture 14 Assignment: The Passive Voice and the Active Voice

I designed this course is anyone who is learning English. They could be a professional who needs to emphasize certain accomplishments, a traveler who wants to tell people where they have been and what they have done, or a person who is making friends and needs to share what their their occupation, their cherished experiences, most important accomplishments. Everyone who is learning English will need perfect tenses because we use them in professional and daily situations.