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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.1 - Across Africa for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the Active grammar box and answer the questions. Then choose the correct underlined words.
  2. Find other examples of the Past Perfect Simple in the extract on page 78.

Answer

a)

  1. We saw things happened first.
  • We use the Past Perfect to make it clear that one event happened before another one in the past.
  • We make the Past Perfect simple with had / hadn’t + past participle.

b)

  • I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I'd bought in a market.
  • The road was empty - we hadn’t seen another car for hours.
  • I didn’t know how long they had been there next to us.
  • When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened.

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