The difference between words: [ago] and [before]

► "Ago” is used when talking about past times from the present moment and “before” is used when talking about past times from a time which is NOT the present moment. For example:
- I’m late for the meeting. It started about ten minutes ago.
- I went to Paris for my honeymoon about fifteen years ago. My wife and I would like to go back there again.
- A few weeks ago I broke my leg, but it’s starting to get better now.
- I went to a Korean restaurant on Thursday even though I had eaten Korean food three days before.
- I couldn’t buy the video game I wanted. I got to the store at 6:30, and the clerk told me he had sold the last copy of the game a few minutes before.
- Many people I know work at my company. I was hired by them in 2005, and my friend got a job there two years before.
▼ As you can see with the word “before”, it is often used with the past perfect tense (had + pp). You can see this with examples 4 and 5. However, it can also be used with the simple past tense as in example 6. We use the past perfect tense when there is a direct connection between the two ideas, but we use the simple past tense when one event simply follows another event.

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