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ESL Medium Quiz - What Had You Done? - Pluperfect (Questions)

Build ESL Medium confidence with past time and sequence, using clear English to explain what happened earlier and how past events connect.

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Fascinating Fact:

The pluperfect is another name for the past perfect tense. It helps you talk about an action that happened before another past action.

In ESL Medium, learners practise English for ordering past events clearly. This topic helps with showing which action happened first, explaining causes, and making stories or descriptions easier to follow.

Key Terms

Past perfect: A tense used to show that one past action happened before another past action.
Sequence: The order in which events happen.
Earlier action: Something that happened first before another event in the past.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

What is the past perfect tense in English?

The past perfect tense in English is used to show that one action was completed before another action happened in the past.

When do you use the past perfect in English?

You use the past perfect in English when you need to make the order of past events clear, especially when one event happened earlier than another.

Why is the past perfect useful in everyday English?

The past perfect is useful in everyday English because it helps speakers explain past situations more clearly when telling stories, describing experiences, or giving background information.

Try These Related Quizzes

1.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
'Away he went, after making sure he had ... ... the door.'

[ ]	... shut ...
[ ]	... shutted ...
[ ]	... shutten ...
[ ]	... shot ...

2.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
Visitors to the castle were able to see the banners which ... ... in the hall since long before the time of Shakespeare.

[ ]	... have hang ...
[ ]	... have hung ...
[ ]	... had hung ...
[ ]	... had hanged ...

3.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
Perhaps someone was not aware that we ... ... about this subject before.

[ ]	... speak ...
[ ]	... spoke ...
[ ]	... have spoken ...
[ ]	... had spoken ...

4.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
They went out for the whole day, but nobody checked if they ... ... the cats before they left.

[ ]	... feed ...
[ ]	... feeded ...
[ ]	... have fed ...
[ ]	... had fed ...

5.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
We spent much of the wet weekend completing a jigsaw puzzle that some friends ... ... us.

[ ]	... lend ...
[ ]	... have lend ...
[ ]	... had lent ...
[ ]	... leaned ...

6.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
Matthew had to go onto work on a Bank Holiday Monday, to deal with a problem that ... ... .

[ ]	... arise ...
[ ]	... has arise ...
[ ]	... had arisen ...
[ ]	... has arose ...

7.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
' (...) And here's a picture of the children, playing with big a piece of driftwood that they ... ... at the end of the beach.'

[ ]	... finded ...
[ ]	.. has found ...
[ ]	... had found ...
[ ]	... have found ...

8.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
It was a beautiful dress, except where (unfortunately) someone ... ... red wine down the back of it.

[ ]	... has spilled ...
[ ]	... had spilt ...
[ ]	... spilled ...
[ ]	... spill ...

9.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
It was only once they ... ... the new chairs home, that they realised they ... ... the wrong colour.

[ ]	... bringed ... / ... choosed ...
[ ]	... brought ... / ... chose ...
[ ]	... had brought ... / ... had chosen ...
[ ]	... has brung ... / ... has chose ...

10.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
By the time we had ... ... the rest of the bottle, he ... ... me how to play 'Happy Birthday' on the harmonica.

[ ]	... drinked ... / ... has teached ...
[ ]	... drank ... / ... has teaght ...
[ ]	... drunk ... / ... has taught ...
[ ]	... drunk ... / ... had taught ...

ESL Medium Quiz - What Had You Done? - Pluperfect (Answers)

1.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
'Away he went, after making sure he had ... ... the door.'

[x]	... shut ...
[ ]	... shutted ...
[ ]	... shutten ...
[ ]	... shot ...

'Shut' is one of a group of short, common verbs which do not change their form at all between the present and the past.

2.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
Visitors to the castle were able to see the banners which ... ... in the hall since long before the time of Shakespeare.

[ ]	... have hang ...
[ ]	... have hung ...
[x]	... had hung ...
[ ]	... had hanged ...

We need the Pluperfect form in this situation, and the irregular past of 'hang' is 'hung'.

3.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
Perhaps someone was not aware that we ... ... about this subject before.

[ ]	... speak ...
[ ]	... spoke ...
[ ]	... have spoken ...
[x]	... had spoken ...

Another common irregular past form, and again it needs to be 'two steps back' in this situation.

4.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
They went out for the whole day, but nobody checked if they ... ... the cats before they left.

[ ]	... feed ...
[ ]	... feeded ...
[ ]	... have fed ...
[x]	... had fed ...

You are probably getting the idea by now, we hope.
Beware of the irregular verb 'feed => fed'. In informal speech, if we are bored with something we may say we are 'fed up' ... !

5.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
We spent much of the wet weekend completing a jigsaw puzzle that some friends ... ... us.

[ ]	... lend ...
[ ]	... have lend ...
[x]	... had lent ...
[ ]	... leaned ...

There is a bit of a rhyming clue in 'spent' (in the Question), now that you know ...
'Lent' is the past form of 'lend'; the related noun is 'loan' (as in the financial product, where someone borrows money from another person or company).

6.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
Matthew had to go onto work on a Bank Holiday Monday, to deal with a problem that ... ... .

[ ]	... arise ...
[ ]	... has arise ...
[x]	... had arisen ...
[ ]	... has arose ...

'Rise => rose => risen' , as with 'drive' and 'write' among other verbs.

7.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
' (...) And here's a picture of the children, playing with big a piece of driftwood that they ... ... at the end of the beach.'

[ ]	... finded ...
[ ]	.. has found ...
[x]	... had found ...
[ ]	... have found ...

'Find' has an irregular past, of course; be careful here with the grammar in context, that 'they had found' the wood. This needs to be two steps back into the past, because they could not very well play with the wood before (or until) they HAD found it.
'Driftwood' = wood that has been drifting across the sea and has now landed on a beach; this could be smaller pieces (perhaps from a wrecked ship or boat), or maybe a complete tree that has ended up in the water after an 'extreme weather event' such as a hurricane or tsunami.

8.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
It was a beautiful dress, except where (unfortunately) someone ... ... red wine down the back of it.

[ ]	... has spilled ...
[x]	... had spilt ...
[ ]	... spilled ...
[ ]	... spill ...

'Spilled' (the regularly-formed version) is also acceptable for the past of this verb.

9.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
It was only once they ... ... the new chairs home, that they realised they ... ... the wrong colour.

[ ]	... bringed ... / ... choosed ...
[ ]	... brought ... / ... chose ...
[x]	... had brought ... / ... had chosen ...
[ ]	... has brung ... / ... has chose ...

Two more, common irregular verbs. In this situation it should be fairly clear that the people made their mistake 'two steps back into the past'.

10.

Choose the answer which best completes the blank/s in good English.
By the time we had ... ... the rest of the bottle, he ... ... me how to play 'Happy Birthday' on the harmonica.

[ ]	... drinked ... / ... has teached ...
[ ]	... drank ... / ... has teaght ...
[ ]	... drunk ... / ... has taught ...
[x]	... drunk ... / ... had taught ...

Two final and useful irregular verbs ... you may pick up some strange but happy experiences, too!