بعضی وقتها درباره چیزی حرف میزنیم که در گذشته روی داده است:

I arrived at the party.

زمانی از ماضی بعید استفاده میکنیم که چیزی قبل از این زمان رخ داده است.مثلا من میگم زمانیکه من به مهمانی رسیدم سمانه رفته بود.قبل از اینکه من به مهمانی برسم سمانه از اوئنجارفته بود.

When Peggy arrived at the party, Tom had already gone home.

به مثالهای دیگر در این مورد توجه کنید:

When I got home, I found that someone had broken into my apartment and had stolen my fur coat.

George didn’t want to come to the movies with us because he had already seen the film twice.

IT was my first time in an airplane. I was very nervous because I had never flown before