Past tense: “Sally ate all the raspberries”, “I enjoyed the story”
Past perfect tense: “Sally had eaten all the raspberries”, “I’d enjoyed the story”
The quick rule of thumb here is that the presence of the word ‘have’ or one of its variants indicates a perfect tense, which means a tense where you’re talking about the state of having done something. The look on Paula’s face was one of abject horror, while Jennifer seemed more angry than anything.”
Here we’re writing from Shelly’s POV, so when we write about Paula and Jennifer’s emotions we find other ways to communicate them by providing Shelley’s perspective. Amateur porn Past perfect gets awkward fast, so if you want to do a lengthy flashback it’s best to use some other devices to indicate it. Thanks contextual information. (‘I’d’ is a contraction of ‘I had’)
Once you get used to recognising the past perfect, be careful not to slip in and out of it by accident. By their nature, pronouns have ambiguous references. There are also possessive pronouns like ‘my’, ‘his’, ‘its’, ‘their’ and ‘yours’, reflexive ones like ‘herself’, relative ones like ‘who’ and ‘that’, and others beside.
