The key answer of exercise 5
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
Complete the sentences using the past perfect simple or continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
Answer
- had won (=single action before point in past / before time when I found out)
- had been stealing (=stealing again and again, continuing action up to point in past when they discovered this)
- had left (=single action before point in past / before time when I realised)
- had been suffering (=suffering continuously over a period of time), hadn’t told (=not even once)
- had missed (=single action before point in past), had been going (=continuously, until we realised our mistake)