Cover of the textbook Solutions Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter IB - Past tenses for the textbook Solutions Advanced - Workbook with authors Tim Falla and Paul A. Davies from Oxford University Press

Question

Look at the timeline. Then write sentences using the prompts and the correct past tense.

Answer

  1. In 1986, Tom was living in Liverpool.
  2. By 1992, Tom had moved to London.
  3. In 1994, Tom was living in Bristol.
  4. By 1997, Tom had been going to / had been at secondary school for two years.
  5. Between 2001 and 2003 Tom didn’t have a job.
  6. By 2013, Tom had been working in London for ten years.