Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - Going through changes for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these sentences from Exercise 1. Then work in pairs to answer the questions.

Answer

  1. He’d had= past perfect simple; He’d been struggling = past perfect continuous
  2. subject + had + past participle; subject + had been + -ing
  3. past perfect simple (just once), past perfect continuous (over a period of time)
  4. for a while