Answer — Exercise 6
6.1 - Across Africa·New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Look at the Active grammar box and answer the questions. Then choose the correct underlined words.
- Find other examples of the Past Perfect Simple in the extract on page 78.
Answer
a)
- 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.