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Answer — Exercise 1

10 - Language focus·New Headway Upper-Intermediate - Workbook

Question

Rewrite the sentences to make them refer to the past.

Answer

  1. I had to read Richard III before my course began.
  2. I had to take the pills three times a day when I was ill.
  3. They must have been away on holiday when you called.
  4. We couldn't have a lunch break - there was too much to do yesterday.
  5. He can't have been a millionaire because he died poor.
  6. We weren't allowed to shout in the classroom when I was at school.
  7. He wouldn't go to bed last night.
  8. That will have been the postman at the door.
  9. You should have been more careful. You broke the vase.
  10. He could have helped with the washing-up for a change, but he didn't.
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