I think the reason why they were complaining was because most of the people had/have paid to hear the actors sing and not you. I think both past perfect and present perfect could work in this situation?

For some reason, "cake" is a sweet obsession in everyone's mind! It would seem to me that past perfect is an overkill. John ate the whole cake yesterday. One single past event, completed! Past perfect always includes 2 past

To repeat - in the US, it's almost always singular. Thanks y'all! See, I would've never known that if I hadn't asked...(I'm using present perfect and past perfect...and I don't even know how I did it.)

A : If I had known that earlier This part is past perfect tense because of 'earlier' right? If I had known earlier which states that if this person had known before so it uses the past perfect?

They had to have that specially made? The sentence is in the past tense. Since English lacks verbs for situations in which person A does something for person B on person B's request, a rather long and awkward structure is used instead: to have

They had to have that specially made? It sounds like past perfect to me but I'm not sure.

She had ran away or She had run away? Past perfect is supposed to have a past particle so it should be ran? But how come I hear She had run all the time.

These are the tenses I had to choose between; Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Continuous, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous, Future with 'Going To', Future Simple,

Matt: the bold-faced words are an example of the past perfect (had + past participle). For example: We HAD already EATEN (from 6 - 6:30 p.m.) when you arrived at 7 p.m. So there was no food left for you. In your sentence, however, we have what is

If only I had studied harder, I would've passed my exams. Is the structure highlighted in this sentence Past Perfect Continuous? MATT