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Date
時制 ③
過去完了形
The train had already left when we got to the station.
They had known each other for seven years before they got married.
「知り合って7年後に結婚した」
【注意】
① x Ihad lived in China for three years when I was a child.
lived
「1マイルも行かないうちに疲れてきた。」
I hadn't gone a mile before I felt tired、
1マイル=400mくらい
1フィート(feet)=30cmくらい
☆大過去
と足より
① 過去のことがらを起こった順序通りに述べる時
I bought a watch, and I lost it the next day.
過去形
過去形
② 順序を逆にして述べる時
I lost the watch, that I had bought the day before,
過去形←過去完了
<時の流れ>

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I ate the lunch my mother had made for me.
<例外> ① Ireached the bus stop after the bus (had) left.
before after は時の前後関係がはっきりしているので過去形でもよい。
② The exam was
easier
more difficult
than I (had) expected.
expect は「前もって思う」と時の前後関係がはっきりしているので過去形でもよい。
過去完了進行形
でも⊕でも使える
案外
「易しかった[難しかった]
意外と
We had been playing tennis for three hours before it suddenly began to rain.
3時間
<We were playing tennis >
I had been waiting for Tom for thirty minutes when he came.
30分
<I
was waiting for Tor>