Verb to be in the Simple Present

I - The Past Perfect Simple: Form

 Pat perfect form in the affirmative (declarative) sentence 

Subject + had + Past Participle + Object 

Examples:

•  I had played football.
•  You had played football.

 Pat perfect form in the Negative sentence

 Subject + had not + Past Participle + Object

 Examples:

•  I had not played football.
•  You had not played football.

 Pat perfect form in the Interrogative sentence

 had + Subject + Past Participle + Object

 Examples:

• Had he played football?
• Had you played football?

II - The Past Perfect Simple: Use

The past perfect tense is used ta talk about what happened before a point in the past

 Examples:

• Hamid left when the football match had finished. (The football match had finished.) 

In the sentence above there are two actions:

Action 1: When the football match had finished. (past perfect simple)

 Action 2: Hamid left.  (past simple) 

The past perfect tense is often used when we report what people had said/ thought/ believed

 Examples:

•  John told me he had finished his homework.
•  My father though I had gone to school.
•  I believed that he had come to see me.

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