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REVIEW PAST PERFECT VS CONTINUOUS

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  • I ..... (wait) for 30 minutes before the train arrived.
    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS: HAD BEEN WAITING
  • I wasn't hungry, because I .... (already eat) a big lunch
    PAST PERFECT : HAD ALREADY EATEN
  • ‘I ...... (WRITE) for seven years but I was still really excited when my first book came out.’
    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS: HAD BEEN WRITING
  • After he ..... (WIN) the competition he started writing every day
    PAST PERFECT HAD WON
  • I ..... (enter) competitions for years before I won.
    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS: HAD BEEN ENTERING
  • By the time he was 29 he ....... (write) ten books.
    PAST PERFECT: HAD WRITTEN
  • She ..... (leave) by the time we ...... (arrive)
    HAD LEFT - ARRIVED
  • She ..... (apply) for this job for a long time and finally she got it.
    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS: HAD BEEN APPLYING
  • It was the second time I ..... (play) tennis with Mike that week.
    PAST PERFECT : HAD PLAYED
  • She wore the shoes she .................. (buy) the previous day.
    PAST PERFECT: HAD BOUGHT
  • I.......(think) of what to write when suddenly I had a great idea for a story.
    PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS: HAD BEEN THINKING
  • When we went back, our house was empty. Somebody ..... (rob) us.
    PAST PERFECT : HAD ROBBED