Past Perfect Tense Challenge Questions

Challenge Questions Answer these questions to get extra practice with the past perfect. Remember that you will need to use the past also. The past and the past perfect go together. It is okay to use the past tense more often, i.e. about 75% of the time. 1. Tell an interesting story from your family's history. It could be about a time when your parents, grandparents or even great grandparents met and got married, a time when they moved to a new city or country, or any family story. 2. Describe a character from a novel or movie that is set in the past. Describe how things happened to this character using the past and the past perfect. 3. Describe the story of an ethnic group from your country that is no longer a strong group today. Discuss this group's past and what happened. Extra Challenge: Using the Present Perfect and the Past Perfect 4. Compare two famous people, i.e. two movie stars or two world leaders. Choose one person who is active now and another person who is elderly or has passed away. Use a combination of tenses, including the present perfect and the past perfect, to describe them.

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