The past perfect and the simple past
Let me go to the point of this by giving you an example.
1. The Past Perfect. I had left (had+ Past participle)
2. Simple Past Tense. You called me
Now, we can build a long sentence with these two forms.
“By the time you called me, I had already left”
We use this combination to show which of two events happened first.
Important:
We use…
The simple past tense
When we want to describe events that occurred at a specific time in the past.
The Past Perfect
When we want to show that something happened before a specific time in the past.
Can you combine these two forms with “By the time”?
Let me have your inquiries