2015-03-13 Structure: past perfect

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 45-47, exercises 4 and 6
exercise 4
2 had been studying		(had studied)
3 had even been observing	(had even observed)
4 had been hoping		(had hoped)
5 had been playing		(had played)
6 had been winning
7 had been waiting
8 had been treating
9 hadn't been competing		(hadn't competed)
exercise 6
2 had been teaching		(had taught)
3 had been observing		(had observed)
4 had come up
5 had shown up
6 had received
7 had helped
8 had been
9 had never been (= gone)
10 had been working
11 had been living		(had lived)
12 had already arrested
13 had been hoping		(had hoped)
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p. 46 exercise 5
2 Had she been living in LA when she signed a contract with the LA Philharmonic?
3 Had she been practicing long before she gave her first performance?
4 Had she been competing a long time when she won first prize in the ...?
5 How long had she been playing when her bow broke during the concert?
6 Had the newspaper reporters been following her before they took pictures...?
7 How long had she and conductor Lorenzo Russo been dating when she married him?
8 Where had they been living before they moved to Rome?

Where had she been working before Mei Ling quit her job?
- I think "she" and "Mei Ling" are different people.

If the main clause is first, I shouldn't use a pronoun for someone who is named in

the dependent clause.

Where had Mei Ling been working before she quit her job?
Before she quit her job, where had Mei Ling been working?
Before Mei Ling quit her job, where had she been working?
- I understand that "she" and "Mei Ling" are the same person.
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She started writing in 2000.
She finished books in 2004, 2008, and 2012.
She will finish another book in 2016.
I met her in 2010.

She writes books for a living.				simple present
She is writing her fourth book right now.		present progressive
She has written three books.				present perfect
She has been writing since 2000. / for 15 years.	pres. perf. progressive

She wrote a book in 2004.				simple past
When I met her, she was writing her third book.		past progressive
At that time, she had written two books.		past perfect
She had been writing for 10 years.			past perfect progressive

She will finish another book in 2016.			future "simple"
She'll be writing her 4th book for the rest of this year. future progressive
She will have written four books by 2018.		future perfect
She will have been writing for 18 years.		future perfect progressive
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p. 48 exercise 7
1 By the time I was 10, I had made up my mind to play professionally.
2 I had been performing with a group at college when my professor recommended me.
3 After I had been working there for only a month, the company closed.
4 Before City Orchestra called me, I had been teaching in a community music...
5 I had almost decided to stop perfoming because I loved working with those kids.
6 We had been planning an orchestra for the kids when I left.
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Homework: p. 49 and 54 (TEST Monday about chapters 3 and 4)