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[ Modals and Past Tenses ]

Which sentence correctly uses the past perfect tense to show an action that occurred before another action in the past?

A. He had been leaving by the time I got there.

B. He leaves by the time I got there.

C. He had left by the time I got there.

D. He was leaving by the time I got there.

Select your answer:
A B C D E

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Identify the tense:

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A. Past Continuous Tense

B. Simple Present Tense

C. Past Perfect Tense

D. Present Perfect Tense

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. ‘What do you know about this magazine?’ ‘It _____ in the UK.’

A. is published with someone

B. is published by

C. is published

D. is published with a company

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(read) We ______ the same book last week.

A. read

B. reads

C. reading

D. redded

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What are the infinitive verbs in the following sentence?

I hate to leave you on a bad note, but I really need to go.

A. Hate and Bad

B. To leave and To go

C. really and need

D. To leave and Bad note