Here are some past perfect tense examples now that the rules have been outlined: I had visited Paris three times before I turned 10 years old.
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Other Forms of the English Past Tense. The preterite isn’t the only way to talk about the past tense in English! English also has three other forms of the past tense: Past Perfect: We usually use this tense to refer to an event that was completed before another event happened. The verb is usually preceded with “had.”