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English 18 Public

Narrative tenses

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What’s the difference in meaning?

a) they were too late to eat b) Dinner was ready

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What’s the difference in meaning?

a) We missed the first ten minutes. b) We were just in time.

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What’t the difference?: 1 When she turned up, he left 2 When she turned up, he'd already gone.

a) She saw him b) she didn’t see him

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What's the difference?: 1 It began to rain when I was leaving work 2 It began to rain when l'd left work.

a) I could go back to work and get my umbrella. b) I couldn't go back to work and get my umbrella sol got very wet.

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What’s the difference? 1 When we got home, a thief was breaking into the flat. 2 When we got home, a thief had broken into our flat.

a) Our computer had gone. b) He ran away.

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Fill in the blanks

had sent / never answered

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Fill in the blanks

had (just) come/got back, looked

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“Why did you change the channel? I ____________ that movie before” [didn't watch / wasn't watching / hadn't watched]

hadn’t watched

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When I ____________ out of the shower the lights ____________.

got / were going off

had got / were going off

was getting / went off

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When I saw Clara, I realized that she ____________ (change) much in all those years.

hadn’t changed

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The burglar ___________ to open the safe when the owner _____________ in.

was trying / came

tried / was coming

tried / came

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Phil and his wife ___________ (meet) when they were working in London

met

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We wanted to go to Peru because we _____________ (not / go) there before.

hadn’t gone

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Their car broke down while they _________ (drive) home

were driving

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By the time I was thirty, I _____________ (visit) more than twenty countries.

had visited

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He woke up, had breakfast, ____________ (feed) his cat and went to work.

fed

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