- A: Jane? Jane! Is that you? How are you? I haven't seen you for ages!
B: Excuse me? Are you talking to me?
A: Oh. You're not Jane. I'm sorry. It is clear that I (make)
a mistake. Please excuse me. - Yesterday I approached a stranger who looked like Jane Moore and started talking to
her. But she wasn't Jane. It was clear that I (make) a
mistake. I was really embarrassed.
EXERCISE 37. Past progressive vs. past perfect. (Chart 4-9)
Dimctions: Circle the correct completion.
- Amanda didn't need to study the multiplication tables in fifth grade. She
them.
A. was learning .;, , @ had already learned - I enjoyed visitingTommy's class. It was an arithmetic class. The students
their multiplication tables.
A. were learning B. had already learned - Whiie I up the mountain, I got tired. But I didn't stop until I reached the
top.
A. was walking B. had walked - I was very tired when I got to the top of the mountain. I a long distance.
A. was walking B. had walked - I knocked. No one answered. I turned the handle and pulled sharply on the door, but
it did not open. Someone it.
A. was locking B. had locked - "Where were you when the earthquake occurred?"
"In my office. I to my assistant. We were working on a report."
A. was talking B. had already talked - "Ahmed's house was destroyed in the earthquake."
"I know! It's lucky that he and his family for his parents' home before the
earthquake struck."
A. were leaving B. had already left - We drove two hundred miles to see the circus in Kansas City. When we got there, we
couldn't find the circus. It town. We all the way to Kansas City for
nothing.
A. was leaving... were driving C. was leaving... had driven
B. had left... had driven D. had left... were driving