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Question
Name the Tense of the Verb underlined to include Time (Past/Present/Future) and Aspect (Simple/Continuous/Perfect/Perfect Continuous).
It had made all the difference.
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Solution
Past Perfect Tense
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Milan
25th October, 2011
Dear Nikita
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Yours
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past perfect forms of the given verbs.
1) We ____ already (reach) home when Irlan __ (say) that he (forget) his books at school.
2) Wendy (wake up) late, then she ____ (miss) her school bus, so by the time she (reach) school, it already (start).
3) I ___ (visit) my town again ten years after I _____ (leave) it and ___ (find) thatit completely (change).
4) When Feroze and Mehr (meet) for the first time, they ___ _ (not like) each other but now they are married.
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All this ________ destroyed in a few years.
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I am fine, now.
Change the Tense as instructed.
The dots will somehow connect. (Past Perfect)
Rewrite the sentences in present perfect tense:
I had been working for Anil for almost a month.
Rewrite the sentence in the simple present tense.
He will go to the school.
