Are these sentences correct? I am trying to make them past perfect.

Question

Question: Has anything ever gone wrong for you?

Answer: Yes. I had lost my keys when I was going to travel to my parents house.

Question: Did you lose your keys?

Answer: I had lost my keys once.

Question: Did you lock yourself out? What happened?

Answer: Yes. I had called key specialist and they opened the door.

Question: What had you done?

Answer: I was really happy, however, I had to pay loads of money.

Please check the answers not questions please write other examples if you can.

Answer 1

Hi Janny,

Your answer to question one looks good, but I would take another look at "parents". Remember that "parents" is possessive, because we're talking about their house. You need to add an apostrophe somewhere.

Question two ("Did you lose your keys?") is just a yes or no question, so you can answer it with just a "yes" or a "no". It is a strange question to ask, though, because you just mentioned in the previous line that you had lost your keys.

Your answer to question three needs an article ("a"), but otherwise it's okay from a grammatical standpoint.

The last question ("What had you done?") sounds a bit awkward and doesn't make much sense to me. It's very ambiguous. I can only guess, though, that the question is asking you what exactly you had done to lose your keys and lock yourself out of the house in the first place. So I think that the questioner is looking for something like, "I usually leave my keys right on top of my desk at work. On this particular day, though, I was working outside of the office and left my keys sitting on top of a table at Starbucks. When I came back to get the keys, though, they had disappeared." Still, I think that the last question is poorly worded, and I would ask the teacher for some clarification.

Answer 2

Yes, they are past perfect, using the helping verb "had". However, unless you were requested to use past perfect verbs, the use of simple past tense would be accurate in these sentences as well.

Past perfect indicates that the action occurred and is totally completed. Some time (even if only a few minutes) has passed between the action and the present time. Think of the word "perfect" as "completed".

If you were to make a craft and finished it by perfecting the craft, that would be the last action performed and the craft would be considered completed.