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Find the incorrect sentences and then rewrite them correctly. Put a tick mark (✓)against the sentences that you think are correct.
1) By 2005, the singer recorded ten albums.
2) When I got to the bank, it had closed.
3) Timothy, the tiger, had killed five calves yesterday.
4) When Rehman met Mini ten years later, she grew up into a young girl.
5) By the time we reached the airport, the flight had left.
6) We hardly went a kilometre or so when the car broke down.

True or False
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Solution

  1. By 2005, the singer had recorded ten albums.
  2. When I got to the bank, it had closed.
  3. Timothy, the tiger, killed five calves yesterday.
  4. When Rehman met Mini ten years later, she had grown up into a young girl.
  5. By the time we reached the airport, the flight had left.
  6. We had hardly gone a kilometre or so when the car broke down.
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Chapter 2: Tenses (Integrated Grammar practice 1) - Exercise D [Page 26]

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CBSE English Communicative Workbook Interact in English [English] Class 10
Chapter 2 Tenses (Integrated Grammar practice 1)
Exercise D | Q 4 | Page 26

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