Past perfect tense or Past perfect continuous tense ?
I've seen a question on a test, I think the option B and C are both correct. However, they said there's only one correct answer. Can anyone help me make it clear?
The children_______ to bed before their parents came home from work.
A. were all going
B. had all gone
C. had all been going
D. have all gone
Top answer
The progressive form doesn't work: They were going to bed before their parents came home from work. These two are fine: They went to bed before their parents came home from work. They had gone to bed before their parents came home from work.
- The progressive form doesn't work: They were going to bed before their parents came home from work.
- These two are fine: They went to bed before their parents came home from work.
- They had gone to bed before their parents came home from work.
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The progressive form doesn't work:
They were going to bed before their parents came home from work.
These two are fine:
They went to bed before their parents came home from work.
They had gone to bed before their parents came home from work.
0khanh hoangThe children_______ to bed before their parents came home from work.
The purpose of this kind of sentence is to say that one event happened before another event happened. So both parts have to be expressed as events.
had all been going to bed describes an activity, not an event. It says that the children were d
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