A. Pola Kalimat Past Perfect Tense
(+) Subject + had + verb 3 + object
(-) Subject + had + not + veb 3 + object
(?) Had + subject + verb 3 + object
Contoh:Saya telah membawa tiga buku.
(+) I had brought three books.
(-) I had not brought three books.
(?) Had I brought three books?
B. Penggunaan
Past Perfect Tense digunakan untuk menyatakan aktivitas yang telah selesai dilakukan ketika/sebelum peristiwa lain terjadi di masa lampau.
Contoh:
- He had completely read one novel when I visited him. (Dia telah membaca satu novel penuh ketika saya mengunjunginya.)
- After he had finished working, he went home. (Setelah dia selesai bekerja dia pulang ke rumah.)
C. Keterangan Waktu
- after : sesudah
- as soon as : segera
- until/till : hingga
- before : sebelum
- when : ketika
D. Latihan
1. Terjemahkan cerita di bawah ini ke dalam bahasa Indonesia!
Do you speak English?
I had an amusing experience last year. After I had left small village in the south of France, I drove on to the next town. On the way, a young man waved to me. I stopped and and he asked me for a lift. As soon as he had got into the car, I said good morning to him in France and he replied the same language. Apart from a few word, I do not know any French at all. neither of us spoke during the journey. I had nearly reached the town, when the young man suddenly said very slowly, "Do you speak English?" As I soon learnt, he was English himself!
Important vocabularies:
- amusing experience : pengalaman lucu
- village : desa
- south : selatan
- drove on : mengendarai
- waved : melambaikan tangan
- a lift : tumpangan
- nearly : hampir
- reached : sampai, mencapai
- suddenly : tiba-tiba
- slowly : pelan