Point 79 in the category of PAST is defined as: past perfect simple, IMAGINED PAST, the affirmative form after ‘if only’, and the affirmative and negative forms after ‘wish’ to talk about regret. if only * _vhd _vvn 1 IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN 293 2 IF ONLY WE HAD KNOWN 62 3 IF ONLY […]
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past perfect continuous (relative clause)
Point 78 in the category of PAST is defined as: past perfect continuous in relative clauses to give background information. who|that|which had been _vvg 1 WHO HAD BEEN WORKING 1233 2 WHO HAD BEEN LIVING 1080 3 THAT HAD BEEN SITTING 642 4 THAT HAD BEEN GOING 481 5 WHO HAD BEEN WAITING 479 6 […]
past perfect simple (relative clause)
Point 77 in the category of PAST is defined as: past perfect simple in relative clauses to give background information. who|that|which had _vvn 1 WHO HAD COME 7745 2 WHO HAD TAKEN 5753 3 WHO HAD WORKED 5373 4 WHO HAD DIED 5142 5 WHO HAD MADE 4712 6 WHO HAD LOST 4373 7 WHO […]
past perfect continuous + adverb
Point 76 in the category of PAST is: past perfect continuous WITH ADVERBS in the normal mid position had _rr been _vvg 1 HAD ALREADY BEEN WORKING 359 2 HAD ALREADY BEEN USING 210 3 HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN USING 122 4 HAD ALSO BEEN WORKING 106 5 HAD ALREADY BEEN GOING 84 6 HAD ALREADY […]
past perfect simple (report of statements)
Point 75 in the category of PAST is defined as: Past perfect simple to report statements, where the main verb in the reporting clause is in the past simple. _vvd * * had _vvn 1 TOLD HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED 256 2 SAID THAT HE HAD SEEN 187 3 TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED 184 […]
past perfect simple (ellipsis)
Point 74 in the category of PAST is defined as: leave out the subject before the past perfect simple where it is understood from the previous clause. _c _had _vvn *However the common that clauses do not really locate ellipsis. 1 THAT HAD COME 3547 2 THAT HAD HAPPENED 3283 3 THAT HAD GONE 2900 […]
past perfect continuous (result)
Point 69 in the category of PAST is defined as: Past perfect continuous for events which started before a time in the past and which finished, but where the effects or results were still important at a point in the past. A search on iWeb for had been _vvg + ‘so’ as a collocate to […]
past perfect simple (change of situation)
Point 66 in the category of PAST is past perfect simple used for a CHANGE OF SITUATION. The EGP uses HAD + ‘planned’ and ‘wanted’ + ‘but’ in their examples. Since this is a difficult structure to find in corpora due to the length of sentences, we have looked directly in Google news for examples: […]
BECAUSE + past perfect simple
Point 59 in PAST is past perfect simple AFTER ‘BECAUSE’ giving explanatory information. 1 BECAUSE I HAD HEARD 519 2 BECAUSE I HAD SEEN 376 3 BECAUSE I HAD READ 372 4 BECAUSE IT HAD BECOME 282 5 BECAUSE HE HAD SEEN 222 6 BECAUSE HE HAD LOST 201 7 BECAUSE HE HAD HEARD 200 […]
past perfect continuous negative
Point 58 in the category of PAST is past perfect continuous negative. 1 HAD NOT BEEN DRINKING 180 Kankakee Daily Journal Canfield said he had not been drinking. Canfield called 911 a third time to report the neighbor was back home. 2 HAD NOT BEEN WORKING 144 3 HAD NOT BEEN WEARING 124 4 […]