Question

关于英语完成时态的问题

这是新概念第二册第九课一片课文"On wednesday evening,we went to the Town Hall.It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the town hall clock".现在我主要不懂里面的时态问题，就算我把这句话改成"On wednesday evening,we had gone to the Town Hall.It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people gathered under the town hall clock",就是两个时态变了，说的意思不是一样吗？

Answer 1

在第一句话中，有一个明显的时间状语：On
Wednesday
evening,
在这种情况下，只能用过去时。后面的句子中之所以用了过去完成时，是因为
had
gathered
是在我们到达（went
to)
这个动作之前发生的，也就是我们所说的“过去的过去",
这时必须用过去完成时。又如：
When
we
got
to
the
cinema,
the
film
had
already
begun.
到达got
to是过去时，在这个过去时之前发生的动作就要用过去完成时。