Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
Before the accident he'd never been thinking anything like this would happen to him.
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Before the accident he'd never thought anything like this would happen to him.
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boom
Lose 50 points!
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shark
Other team loses 25 points!
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shark
Other team loses 25 points!
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lifesaver
Give 25 points!
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Which tense is correct?
Sam's friends had already gone / had already been going by the time he got / was getting there.
Sam's friends had already gone by the time he got there.
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Which tense is correct?
He is playing / has been playing tennis since he started/ was starting school.
He has been playing tennis since he started school.
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What's the difference between these two sentences?
a What do you think?
b What are you thinking?
Sentence a asks for your opinion.
Sentence b asks about what is on your mind/your mental process now.
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What's the difference between these two sentences?
a He'd been trying to phone her before she left the country.
b He'd tried to phone her before she left the country.
In sentence a, he had tried to phone her more than once/repeatedly.
In sentence b, he had tried to phone her once.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
I'm loving hamburgers: I eat five every day and I eat one at the moment!
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I love hamburgers: I eat five every day and I'm eating one at the moment!
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banana
Go to last place!
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gift
Win 10 points!
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fairy
Take points!
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lifesaver
Give 20 points!
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Which tense is correct?
They waited / were waiting until everybody had left /had been leaving the bank and then they broke in / were breaking in through the window.
They waited until everybody had left the bank and then they broke in through the window.
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monster
Reset all scores!
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magnet
Take 25 points!
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shark
Other team loses 15 points!
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lifesaver
Give 20 points!
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Which tense is correct?
Don't come round at eight. I'll put /'ll be putting the children in bed then.
Don't come round at eight. I'll be putting the children in bed then.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
I've been knowing him for a few months, but I've only been meeting his sister once.
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I've known him for a few months, but I've only met his sister once.
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Which tense: Past simple or Past continuous?
When he ______ (arrive)at the party, everyone ______ (talk) and ______ (laugh).
When he arrived at the party, everyone was talking and laughing.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
As soon as she was seeing the time, she was jumping out of bed.
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As soon as she saw the time, she jumped out of bed.
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Which tense: Present perfect simple or continuous?
You're covered in mud and you ____ (tear) your T-shirt! You ____ (play) rugby, haven't you?
You're covered in mud and you've torn your T-shirt! You've been playing rugby, haven't you?
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
Tom was exhausted because he'd been working too hard.