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a. When my arrived home yesterday, my parents had gone to bed.

b. The train had already left when I got to the station.

c. The film had started when David came to the cinema.

d. He passed his exams because he worked hard.

e. Jane felt disappointed because Josh forgot her birthday.

f. Lisa went out after she had chosen a dress.

g. She looked gorgeous because she picked her best dress.

h. She put on her dress after she had ironed it.

Past simple or past perfect

a. When I phoned Anne, she had already left.

b. The kids turned off the TV because their favorite programme had finished.

c. The plane had already landed when we arrived to the airport.

d. When I saw Mary, her parents had already told her the bad news.

e. Jane had already swam in the swimming pool when her husband arrived and gave her bunch of roses.

f. When Ted gave Jane the flowers, they had not celebrated their wedding anniversary yet.

g. Jane drank all the champagne before Ted came.

Explanation:

I have been able to complete the English exercise above by picking the correct answers.

In the above selected answers, you will see the use of simple past tense and past perfect tense.

Simple past tense is actually the tense that talks about a time before now that a particular action was completed. The time at which the action was carried out could be in the recent past or distant past.

While the past perfect tense talks about the verb form that refers to the action which was carried out at a time earlier than a time that is past which is being referred to.