Past simple and Past Perfect in a specific time Hello eveyone! I thought it was clear in my mind the difference between Past simple and Past Perfect but these kind of examples make me confuse: ------------------------------- I took these sentences and their explaination from my English book. - I ate my dinner at 9 o' clock. - I had eaten my dinner at 9 o'clock. the first sentence means I started to eat my dinner at 9 o' clock, whereas the second one means that my dinner was already finished at 9 o'clock. ------------------------------ I don't undestand the explaination. Those examples for me mean that at 9 o'clock I finished to eat. "the Simple Past express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past." "We use the Past Perfect to show that something started in the past and continued up until another action in the past." Could you help me, maybe trying to explain the difference between these sentences in other words?? Thank you, have a nice day!!