Grammar: Groups & phrases: Verb group: Time & tense
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Past perfect | |
Situations which did not happen
The past perfect is also used for the 'third conditional' 
, so called because it expresses an unreal or conditional
situation.
If I had known you were coming, I would have prepared something.
It is also used with verbs which express hopes and wishes:
I wish I had known you were coming.
In both cases, the past perfect is used to refer to past events which did not happen.
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