Here’s what happened first…

So, here’s the sentence: I woke up late because I'd forgotten to set the alarm. The first thing that happened was she forgot to set the alarm clock and the second thing was she woke up. We use the past perfect to describe an earlier past – even though the first thing we read in the sentence is that she woke up and then we read that she forgot to set the alarm: Find out more on our website at www.bbclearningenglish.com