I went to bed after I had learnt the poem.

 

to have dinner, to do homework, to come , to read the book, to clean the room, to go shopping, to return from Australia, to finish work

1. I went to see my friend after...

2. I watched TV after...

3. They went home after...

4. He phoned me after...

5. She went to dance after...

6. We wrote a composition after...

7. They rebuilt the house after...

8.  We went for a walk after...

Exercise 6.Say what action was done before. Combine the two sentences into one.

e.g. I sent a telegram. Then I met my friend.

I had sent a telegram before I met my friend.

 

1. The rain stopped. I went for a walk.

2. I did my homework. My mother returned home.

3. We met in the street. We went to the park.

4. They packed their things. Then they started.

5. I had dinner. I switched on the TV set.

6. He returned home. The guests left.

7. We came to the cinema. The film began.

8. I read the book. I saw the play.               

9. They lived here. They moved to another place.

10. We played а game of tennis. We went to my place.

Exercise 7. Read the situations and make sentences from the words in brackets.

e.g. 1. I was very tired when I arrived home.

(I / work / hard all day) I had been working hard all day.

2. The two boys came into the house. They had a football and they were both very tired.

(they / play / football) ______________________________________

3. There was nobody in the room but there was a smell of cigarettes.

(somebody / smoke / in the room) ________________________________

4. Ann woke up in the middle of the night. She was frightened and didn't know where she was.

(she / dream) _______________________________________

5. When I got home, Randy was sitting in front of the TV. He had just turned it off.

(he / watch / TV) _______________________________________

Exercise 8. Complete the sentences using the Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

e.g.

... before we came from the supermarket. Liz/ to clean/the flat/for two hours.

Liz had been cleaning the flat for two hours before we came from the supermarket.

 

1) ... before Tom came to the court. Helen/to play/tennis/for an hour and a half.

2) ... before he retired. Mr. Black/to work /as a lawyer/for twenty-five years.

3) ... when the bus arrived. We/ to wait/for forty minutes.

4) Sheila looked tired because ... . She/to sew/a dress/for her little daughter/all day.

5) Before Jack got to level four... . He/to play/the same game/for three hours.

6) Mike's neighbors were angry because ... . He/to listen/to loud music /for four hours/yesterday evening.

7) Everybody was very hungry because ... . They/to work/all day/without/a break for lunch.

8) ... when suddenly the car broke down. We/ to drive/for five hours.

9) ... before the plane landed in the airport late in the evening yesterday. They/to fly/for six hours.

10) ... since Easter, Alex and Den/to prepare/for the exams.

 

Exercise 9. Make the sentences negative and interrogative.

1) Brian had been trying to find a better job for three weeks.

2) Little Johnny had been riding his new bike all day yesterday.

3) Robert and Frank had been fixing that computer for two hours yesterday.

4) Julia had been typing the report all the morning yesterday.

5) It had been raining all night last Tuesday.

6) The Smiths had been building their house for four years.

7) We had been skating for three hours yesterday.

8) You had been decorating the classroom for more than two hours last Saturday.

9) The twins had been fighting in the backyard when their mother saw them.

10) Molly had been speaking on the phone for an hour and a half yesterday evening.

 Exercise 10. Complete the sentences below by putting the verb in brackets into the past perfect or past perfect continuous. Начало формы

 

1. It was a relief to find the documents. I (look) for them all afternoon. 

2. He was dismissed, even though, in his opinion, he (not/do) anything wrong. 

3. It was not the first time I'd met him. We (meet) many times before. 

4. He called me at eleven in the evening to tell me that he (find/finally) a solution. 

5. When he (finish) his speech, he waited for the reaction of the audience. But no one said a word. 

6. By the time I came back from my business trip, a lot of things (changed). 

7. The doctor asked me how long I (have) the symptoms. 

8. It was more than a month before we realized what (happen) to him. 

9. We (work/already) on this project for a month before we found a fundamental flaw. 

10. The invoice (not/arrive/still) by the end of the week so we sent them a strong reminder. 

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