Past Perfect Songs

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00It is not a common verb tense and aspect. It is seldom used, and I strongly advise you not to waste time teaching it, but to go on to something more valuable, like additional vocabulary.0-

Thanks for the great advice.

There's James Blunt's Goodbye My Lover, which brings some example sentences.

I agree that it is not as common as the simple tenses, of course, but I would not say that it is seldom used. I would also never tell teachers not to teach it. I have many examples I teach with on video clips from movies and "real life" situations like the news. I have a recent interview with former Pres. Clinton where he uses the past perfect five times in three minutes.

I'm shaking

"I strongly advise you not to waste time teaching it"

Truly terrible advice.

I couldn't disagree more with this answer. I would say that it is a very important part of the English language and one that is used frequently.

I'm just curious as to why you say that the past perfect is a waste of time to teach. I believe there are situations where one would need to express that one event occured before another in the past. I would just like to know why you say it is a waste of time to teach it.

I repeat that it is a seldom-used form, one that is less and less used in fact, and one which, if used, is often over-used or mistakenly used or unnecessarily used in place of the simple past form.

Past perfect is required in only two instances: when the temporal order of two past events is unclear without it, and when the writer, for style, wishes to emphasize the completion of the earl

I don't have any songs for the past perfect, but I tend to spend a lot of time on the present perfect as the Ss don't have that in their L1. I use the U2 I still haven't found what I'm looking for. I tend to draw a battered house with broken windows, missing chimney etc. Elicit what's wrong with it then get a Ss to draw it after the repairs. The grass has be cut, the windows have been replaced

Are you a teacher Mister Micawber....?