"The Carpathia ship arrived four hours later to the place where the - Titanic had sunk.", In the sentence above, there are two - actions: arrived and had sunk., Which one happened first? Obviously, the fact - that the Titanic had sunk. What happened after that? The Carpathia ship arrived., So, when we have two actions that happened in the past, we can show which one happened - first by using the Past Perfect (had sunk). The action that happened after it is expressed with the past simple (arrived)., How do we form the past perfect? We use had / - hadn't + the third form of the verb.,

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