Noticing form

Noticing form Notice the form of the verbs italicised in these sentences. My grandmother was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe.

When we both had finished we would walk back together. When I came back she would ask me what the teacher had taught me. It was the first time since I had known her that she did not pray. .

The sun was setting and had lit her room and verandah with a golden light. These are examples of the past perfect forms of verbs. When we recount things in the distant past we use this form. Noticing form Make students notice the use of the past perfect form of the verb that frequently appear in the text to recount the remote past.

You could practise the form with other examples.