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The key to exercise solutions in chapter Grammar Bank 4 for the textbook Spark 4 - Workbook with authors Virginia Evans, Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

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

Answer

  1. Tony was sad. He had failed his exams.
  2. We had been waiting for an hour before she turned up.
  3. When we got to the station the train had already left.
  4. She was tired because she had been working hard all day.
  5. He was happy because he had passed his exams.
  6. She was annoyed because he had been talking on the phone since lunch time.
  7. He had broken his arm so he couldn't play tennis.
  8. She was wet because she had been walking in the rain for an hour.

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