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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 15 - Accidents and injuries for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Complete the sentences with the correct past form of the verbs. Then decide in which of the sentences the present form would also be possible.

Answer

  1. had; gave
  2. ate (eats OK if it’s still true now); needed (needs OK if still true now)
  3. would have (also will have, might have, could have); had been
  4. wouldn’t hurt; was
  5. had done (although was doing also possible if he’s still alive at time of speaking); could
  6. had done; was causing (or had caused)
  7. had happened; caused (causes also possible)
  8. had heard; had understood / understood