you had called them vs had you call them

The correct phrase is "you had called them." The first phrase is the correct form of the past perfect tense in the active voice. The second phrase is not a common or correct structure in English.

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you had called them

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is the past perfect tense in the active voice, indicating an action that occurred before another past action. It is used to describe a completed action in the past.

Examples:

You had called them before I arrived.
I knew you had called them yesterday.
She said you had called them earlier.
They were happy that you had called them back.
He realized you had called them too late.

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I forgot to tell you that I had called them and said we'd like to discuss something with them.
That you had called her 25 times in January.
I'd rather you had called first.
Sorry for the intrusion. if you had called me back...
But I wish you had called before you packed everything up.
If you had called the center for justice yesterday, You could have gotten another lawyer assigned to this case.
Our friend Dr. Winkel said you had called.
You know, if you had called me earlier, we might have more options.
If you had called, I would have told you.
I wish you had called or-or some...
I just wish you had called me when you found out you were pregnant.
I wish you had called to let us know... and maybe we would have been better prepared... for your cameras and your show.
It might have worked, actually, if the phone he had called them with hadn't been found.
I came as soon as the archdiocese de Mexico City told me that my son had called them.
One patient I had called them dates, but I had to drop him.
If you hadn't been so busy getting off by peeping on her... if you had called the police about your blood brother, the Indian... Gloria Revelle would still be alive.
I then assumed you had called an immediate electronic vote on the grounds that you thought the results were so close together, but the normal way of voting would have been by show of hands.
But what if you had called it in and crashed it?
However, you had not said 'approved': you had called it 'rejected'.
I called them and declined their offer.

had you call them

This phrase is not a common or correct structure in English.

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you had called them vs had you call them