Cover of the textbook Solutions Upper-Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1B - Past perfect simple and past perfect continuous for the textbook Solutions Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Tim Falla and Paul A. Davies from Oxford University Press

Question

Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous.

Answer

  1. I had never snorkelled before Mia took me last year. 
  2. Clara was annoyed because the book she’d ordered hadn’t arrived.
  3. How long had you been playing the guitar before we met? 
  4. By the time the shops opened, they had been queuing for nearly an hour.
  5. I looked for my bag, but I’d forgotten where I’d put it.
  6. Greg was tired last night because he had been playing basketball.