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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4b - Grammar for the textbook Spark 4 - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans, Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple, past perfect or the past perfect continuous.

Answer

  1. They had been walking in circles for five hours before they realised they were lost.
  2. The rescuers spotted the man. He had fallen from the cliff top.
  3. He had taken all the proper precautions so he survived in the jungle.
  4. He had run out of fresh water and was thirsty.
  5. How long had he been hiding there before they found him?
  6. Ben had done a survival course once. He knew what to do.

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