When do I use it and how do I use the past perfect?
The past perfect is used to describe a past action that happened before another past action.It expresses the anteriority of a past action, compared to another past action expressed by the simple past, the present perfect, the preterite...
You use the auxiliaries HAVE or BE at l'imparfait + past participle of the verb.
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