#had done

[wiirocku]

Genesis 2:2 (ESV) - And on the seventh day God finished His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.

[anignoredgirl]

[iron-sides]

hey do guys remember asylum of the daleks bc im watching the dalek (season one episode six) and its just like wow. these two very different episodes trying to get the viewer to sympathize with daleks. asylum of the daleks by making them look like people the whole episode and the dalek by telling us exactly what they did exactly why the doctor hates them and then showing us that they still deserve kindness where possible and sympathy and respect. by showing us this dying dalek who is the last of its kind. i demand orders. yes. i am in pain. i welcome death. i am being tortured. FUCK

[carry-on-my-wayward-meg]

“The 'had done' form (or past perfect) is one of the least used tenses in English. We only really use it in the following situations:

- When it's important to say which event happened first in the past;

- In reported speech;

-To show regret about the past;

- In conditional (if) sentences.

- When we need to show what happened first in the past (especially if we "jump" around in our story), we can use the past perfect form:

‘He started to clean the floor. (Past tense.) He didn't realize that I had done it before he got home.‘ 'I was hungry, as I hadn't eaten all day.' (Being hungry happened after not eating all day.) Compare these two sentences: 'When he got to the airport, the plane took off.' (The plane took off AFTER he arrived at the airport.) 'When he got to the airport, the plane had taken off.' (The plane took off BEFORE he arrived at the airport.)

- Reported speech in English: ‘I didn't see her’, he said. ‘He told me he hadn't seen her.’ Because his words are in the past, when we report them we need to go one tense back and use the past perfect. This is also the case if the words are in the present perfect. 'I have never been to Scotland.' She SAID that she HAD NEVER BEEN to Scotland.

- To show regret: ‘I wish I hadn't gone to the party.’ (But I went.) ‘If only she hadn't bought that car.’ (But she did.)

- Conditional sentences (when we speculate about past events) ‘If I had worked harder, I would have passed the exam.’ (But I didn't work harder, so I failed.) ‘If you had told me, I could have helped.’ (But you didn't tell me, so I couldn't help.) ‘If they had left earlier, they might have caught the plane.‘(But they didn't leave earlier, so they didn't get the plane.)”