Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which was the only one taught by a ghost. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff room fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emetic the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.
Had the two past perfect tenses (had been, had fallen) happened before Binns died and the past tense (got up) happened after he became a ghost?
Top answer
Yes. He was very old. He fell asleep.
— BarbaraPA
Yes.
He was very old.
He fell asleep.
He died.
He got up as a ghost and went to teach.
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