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Text, grammar rules, exercises

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1. What are the characters talking about?

2. Who found money and how much?

3. What was Nicola advised to do with the money?

4. What would Tom have done with the money?

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Hang on!

Guess what?

No chance!

Keep your fingers crossed!

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Give examples of situations where you can use these expressions.

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Rule:
S + past perfect simple + "before" + past simple

Examples:

I had spoken English before I moved to America.

Vorbisem engleza înainte să mă mut în America.

Keep in mind!
Past perfect is used to describe an event in the past that happened before another event in the past.

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Have you ever been to a plant dome?

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Find the past perfect simple structures in the text.

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Affirmative: Sub. + had + vb 3
Interrogative: Had + sub. + vb. 3
Negative: Sub. + had + not + vb.3

Examples:
I had done
He hadn't gone
We had eaten
Had she finished the test?
You had worked
We'd done
He'd laughed

Hint:
The Romanian equivalent tense of past perfect simple is "mai mult ca perfect".

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Which sentence has a "past perfect simple" structure?

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Which sentence has a "past perfect simple" structure?

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She felt better because she'd gotten something to eat. (S-a simțit mai bine fiindcă își luase ceva să mănânce.)

She felt better so she got something to eat. (S-a simțit mai bine, deci și-a luat ceva să mănânce.)