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Answer — Exercise 7

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

Câu hỏi

Think of a response to each of these sentences using the past perfect simple or continuous. Then work in pairs. Take turns asking the questions and giving reposes.

Câu trả lời

  1. He’d put on a lot of weight. / He’d been complaining about how unfit he’d been feeling.
  2. She’d had her purse stolen. / She’d spent it all. She’d been gambling. / She’d been going out to fancy restaurants and she’d been spending lots of money on clothes.
  3. They’d always wanted to. / They’d been talking about it for ages and in the end they just decided to give it a go. A friend of theirs had moved there and she’d been telling them how amazing it was.
  4. He’d just lost interest in the game. / He’d been suffering from injuries far too frequently. / He hadn’t been enjoying it for a while.
  5. I’d not been working much and I’d started defaulting on the mortgage payments. / I’d been thinking about moving somewhere else for a while and in the end I just decided.

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