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Penicillin Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Help in these sentences

Hello

Which of the highlighted verbs should be in the past perfect simple or continuous?


a- It was obvious that they play football in the park.

b- As soon as I saw her, I realised we met before.

c- The frustrated passengers waited for several hours before someone finally made an announcement.

d- Everyone was amazed at his appearance: they never see anyone with dyed blue hair before.






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Top answer

It was obvious that they had been playing football in the park. As soon as I saw her, I realised we had met before. The frustrated passengers had been waiting for several hours before someone finally made an announcement.

— Ant_222

  • It was obvious that they had been playing football in the park.
  • As soon as I saw her, I realised we had met before.
  • The frustrated passengers had been waiting for several hours before someone finally made an announcement.
  • Everyone was amazed at his appearance: they had never seen anyone with dyed blue hair before.
  • Did that help?
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It was obvious that they had been playing football in the park.

As soon as I saw her, I realised we had met before.

The frustrated passengers had been waiting for several hours before someone finally made an announcement.

Everyone was amazed at his appearance: they had never seen anyone with dyed blue hair before.

Did that help?
Do you now see the differenc
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That what I want.

Thanks for your help.
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Actually, I think c could have worked just fine the way it was originally, if you were telling a story using the simple past.
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