Answer — Exercise 1
3c - Grammar in use·On Screen B1+/B2 - Student's Book
Question
- Identify the tenses in bold (1-6) then match them to their uses (A-F). Check in the Grammar Reference.
- Identify the rest of the past forms in the text. How is each used?
Answer
a)
- past perfect continuous C - (had been + verb -ing)
- past simple A - (regular verb + -ed)
- past perfect F - (had + p.p.)
- past simple B
- past continuous D - (was / were + verb -ing)
- past continuous E
b)
- could - past simple (A)
- arrived, walked, informed - past simple (B)
- heard - past simple (A)
- got - past simple (B)
- was - past simple (A)
- told - past simple (A)
- had been - past perfect (F)
- had to - past simple (A)
- had happened - past perfect (F)
- wasn't - past simple (A)
- had booked - past perfect (F)
- had mistaken - past perfect (F)