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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.1 - Famous hoaxes for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the first paragraph of the article again. Underline examples of the Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Continuous.
  2. Work in pairs and explain the difference in meaning (if any) between the pairs of sentences (1-3) in the Active grammar box. Why might one verb form be more appropriate than the other in this context?
  3. Complete the rules (A-D) in the Active grammar box with the words from the box below.

Answer

a)

  • Past Simple → announced, lived, used, could find, isolated, didn't speak, arrived, allowed
  • Past Continuous → was working
  • Past Perfect Simple → had found, had existed
  • Past Perfect Continuous → had been living

b)

  1. 1a) means Elizalde had left the country before the truth came out.; 1b) means Elizalde was in the country at the time the truth came out, and then he left immediately. Here 1a) is more appropriate; the truth came out after Elizalde had left the country.
  2. 2a) uses the continuous to emphasise duration (the long period of time).; 2b) is also possible but doesn't emphasise duration as strongly as 2a).
  3. 3a) and 3b) are similar in meaning.

c)

  1. chronological
  2. progress
  3. before
  4. length