Past Perfect: questions

 

To make questions in the Past Perfect, put had before the subject and add the past participle form of the verb:

Singular	Plural
Had I seen? Had you seen? Had he/she/it seen?	Had he seen? Had she seen? Had they seen?

• Had you seen Helen playing squash with Nicole before the rain started?
• Had he made any mistakes before the teacher asked him to hand in the test?
• You looked pale. Had anybody scared you?

Note: in short positive answers to the Past Perfect questions we use only full forms of ‘had’. In short negative answers we can also use short forms of had.

• Had you made your homework before the movie started?
• Yes, I had (No, I hadn’t).

 

• Had he already finished cleaning when you came in?
• Yes, he had (No, he hadn’t).