Question

Добрый вечер, помогите пожалуйста с заданием. Fill in the gaps with one of the verbs from the list in the past perfect or the past perfect continuous: burgle, steal, read, wait, not/ catch work. 1. The detective looked tired because he ....................... on the case all night. 2. Lucy was worried because the police ....................... the criminl yet. 3. They were upset because somebody ...................... their house. 4. The accused was worried because he ........................ for the jury to reach a verdict for over an hour. 5. The police office was tired because the ....................... case files all morning.

Answer 1

Ответ:

1 had been working

2 hadn't caught

3 had burgled

4 had been waiting

5 had been reading

Объяснение:

Answer 2

1. The detective looked tired because he had been working on the case all night. 2. Lucy was worried because the police had not caught the criminal yet. 3. They were upset because somebody had burgled their house. 4. The accused was worried because he had been waiting for the jury to reach a verdict for over an hour. 5. The police officer was tired because the had been reading case files all morning.

In this exercise, we need to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb in the past perfect or past perfect continuous tense. The past perfect tense is used to describe an action that happened before another action in the past. The past perfect continuous tense is used to describe an action that started in the past and continued up until another point in the past.

Let's go through each sentence and choose the appropriate verb form:

1. The detective looked tired because he had been working on the case all night. (past perfect continuous tense - the detective had been working on the case before he looked tired) 2. Lucy was worried because the police had not caught the criminal yet. (past perfect tense - the police had not caught the criminal before Lucy became worried) 3. They were upset because somebody had burgled their house. (past perfect tense - somebody had burgled their house before they became upset) 4. The accused was worried because he had been waiting for the jury to reach a verdict for over an hour. (past perfect continuous tense - the accused had been waiting for the jury before he became worried) 5. The police officer was tired because the had been reading case files all morning. (past perfect continuous tense - the police officer had been reading case files before he became tired)

By using the appropriate verb forms, we can accurately describe the sequence of events in the past.