Question

Помогите. Exercise 2. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Perfect Passive. 1. This guitar ... (tune) before I broke a string (струна) and had to tune it again. 2. This house ... (paint) pink before it was given a fresh coat of paint (свежий слой краски). Now it’s blue. 3. These bees ... (keep) in a large hive (улей) before they were taken out and examined by the beekeeper. 4. This man ... (give) Novocain before the dentist started working on a cavity (дупло (в зубе) that needed a filling.

Answer 1

1 had been tuned

2 had been painted;

3 had been kept

4 had been given

Answer 2

Exercise 2. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Perfect Passive.

1. This guitar had been tuned before I broke a string and had to tune it again.
2. This house had been painted pink before it was given a fresh coat of paint. Now it’s blue.
3. These bees had been kept in a large hive before they were taken out and examined by the beekeeper.
4. This man had been given Novocain before the dentist started working on a cavity that needed a filling.