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13 - Going through changes·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

Question

Complete the sentences using the past perfect simple or continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

Answer

  1. had won (=single action before point in past / before time when I found out)
  2. had been stealing (=stealing again and again, continuing action up to point in past when they discovered this)
  3. had left (=single action before point in past / before time when I realised)
  4. had been suffering (=suffering continuously over a period of time), hadn’t told (=not even once)
  5. had missed (=single action before point in past), had been going (=continuously, until we realised our mistake)

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