3. Had Paco ever imagined he would go to a baseball match?

The interrogative form of the Past Perfect has the same structure as the interrogative form in the Present Perfect. We're sure you  still remember it. Let's have a look at it.
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From upper left: Manhattan south of Rockefeller Center, the Brooklyn Bridge, United Nations Headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, and Times Square
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A few years ago, had Paco ever imagined he would go to a baseball match? No, he hadn't.
In New York he managed to get a ticket to see an important match of the New York Yankees against the boston red Sox, another outstanding baseball team, in the new Yankee Stadium.
How had Paco managed to find a ticket for such an important match? Well, he had  bumped into someone in a bar while he was having a drink. He had heard this man speaking about the possibility of getting some tickets for the match, so  Paco asked them about it and joined them for a drink.
These people told Paco that the Yankees name is often shortened to the Yanks. Their most prominently used nickname is "the Bronx Bombers" or simply "the Bombers", a reference to their home and their powerful hitting.
They also told Paco that their rivalry with the Boston Red Sox is by far the fiercest in North American professional sports history.

Identify a couple of interrogative forms of the past perfect tense in the text.


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Past perfect + just

 

Just is used with the past perfect to refer to an event that was only a short time earlier than the other past action:

The burglars had just entered the house when the owner arrived.

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The burglars had just driven away when the police arrived.


Icono de IDevice de pregunta Self-Assessment activity
Choose the most appropriate answer to complete these questions in the past perfect tense.
1) _______________ in New York before she moved to Madrid?
  
a) Had your sister lived
b) Had lived your sister

2) ______________ the bell many times before I opened the door?
  
a) did you have rung
b) had you rung

3) _______________ their tests before they gave them to the teacher?
  
a) Have the students checked
b) Had the students checked

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1) What _______________ before he started the lesson? (the teacher/explain)

2) _______________ London before 1987? (your parents/visit)

3) How long _______________ in that house before your family sold it? (you/live)

4) How long _______________in jail before his lawyer arrived? (John/be)

5) Why _______________  doing their homework before you arrived? (the children/stop)

Complete the questions in Past Perfect Simple with the verbs given.

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Baseball

 

The new Yankee Stadium.
By The Silent Wind of Doom. Creative Commons.

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of Major League Baseball's American League East Division. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles, and moved to New York City in 1903, becoming known as the New York Highlanders before being officially renamed the "Yankees" in 1913. From 1923 to 2008, the Yankees' home ballpark was Yankee Stadium, one of the world's most famous sports venues. In 2009, they moved into a new stadium, also called "Yankee Stadium".

The franchise is the defending World Champion of Major League Baseball and lead the League in both revenue and titles, with 27 World Series championships and 40 American League Pennants. They have more championships than any other franchise in North American professional sports history, passing the 24 Stanley Cup championships by the Montreal Canadians in 1999. Throughout the team's history, the franchise has produced some of the most celebrated players in Major League history, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Yogi Berra. The franchise has seen 44 of its players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the Yankees have retired the numbers of 16 of its players.

The Yankees have achieved widespread popularity and a dedicated fanbase, although they have acquired a polarizing reputation for their heavy spending in pursuit of winning. Their rivalry with the Boston Red Sox is arguably the fiercest and most historic in North American professional sports. To support the Yankees and expand their media coverage, the dedicated television channel YES Network was launched in 2002, and it has become a large source of revenue for the franchise.

Taken from Wikipedia.

A song strongly linked to the Yankees team is New York, New York, which is played in the stadium after home games. The Frank Sinatra cover version is traditionally played after victories.


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Click here to revise the formation of the interrogative form of the past perfect.

Watch the video below about the New York Yankees and you will see lots of symbols related to them.

 


 

 


We have finished with the Past Perfect Tense. Although in our topics we study British English, we should learn some differences with American English. Later in this topic 2 we'll focus on vocabulary and spelling differences.
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