We can use the past perfect and the past perfect continuous to ask questions about the past. Simple questions in the past perfect are formed using:
| had | Subject | Past Participle | |
| Had | I you he she it we you they |
flown | to London before? |
Simple questions in the past perfect continuous are formed using:
| had | Subject | been | Present Participle | |
| Had | I you he she it we you they |
been | flying | to London before? |
We can use these simple questions to ask about experiences in the past. Here are some examples of questions and answers in the past perfects.
Had they won any games before yesterday?
No, they hadn't. This was their first win!
Had you been hiding for long before they found you?
Yes, I'd been hiding for a whole hour.
Had she come down by the time you arrived?
No, she was still stuck in the tree.
Notice that these simple sentences are always answered with yes or no.
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