Cover of the textbook New Headway Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4 - Grammar for the textbook New Headway Intermediate - Workbook with authors Liz Soars, John Soars and Paul Hancock from Oxford University Press

Question

Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use the Past Perfect Simple or Continuous.

Answer

  1. I'd been shopping and I'd spent all my money.
  2. She had been waiting for hours and her boyfriend hadn't turned up.
  3. Peter had been the best player in the team and had been training for the Olympics.
  4. She'd been listening to her music and hadn't heard me call her.
  5. He'd been at the same company and he'd been doing the same job for ten years.
  6. I'd been working all day and hadn't had anything to eat.