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II. Past simple or pluperfect?
- 1) We (wait)had been waiting for her for hours when she (call)called.
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- She (have)had had and accident, and she (be)was still very shocked.
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- We (tell) had told her not to drive too fast before she (leave) left , but she (not listen)had not listened.
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2) It (be)was her birthday, at 11 p.m nobody (call) had called, she (feel) felt very lonely.
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personne n'avait appelé jusqu'au moment repère
It was the first time her friends (forget) had forgotten her. She (never be)had never been so sad in her whole life.
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de toute sa vie jusqu'au moment repère, c'était la première fois
She (decide)decided to go and see the film her sister (talk) had talked her about the day before.
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She (queue)had been queuing for ten minutes in front of the cinema when she (see)saw them going out.
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3)Nobody (seem) seemed to be able to understand why he (talk) had been talking so rudely to his best friend over the last few days. activité + durée jusqu'au moment repère
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What nobody (know) knew is that his best friend (cheat)had been cheating on him since the beginning of the month.
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The teachers (never see) had never seen anything until the day when a teacher (make) made two different tests.
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Both (be) were severely punished.
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4) Miss Lam, a woman in her mid-fifties, living alone in a comfortable flat, (be) had been missing for some months
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when the police (be)was eventually contacted) by her doctors after she (miss) had missed several appointments.
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Two days later, two policemen (visit)visited the flat with a spare key they (obtain) had obtained from her cleaner évènement au moment repère évènement précédant le moment repère
who (not hear)had not heard from her for weeks.
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They (find) found nothing out of the ordinary. The flat (be) was clean, quiet and tidy.
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None of the cupboards (be) had been emptied, there seemed to be an abundance of clothes still hanging up.
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The bedroom (contain) contained a long looking-glass. In the bathroom they (find) found several bottled of expensive
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scent. After this they (go back) went back to the doctor who (alert) had alerted them in the first place.
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But he (be) were unable to give any useful information.
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He said that he (last/see) had last seen her just before the summer.
bilan sur la période qui précède.