Question

ПОМОГИТЕ ПОЖАЛУЙСТА Choose the right forms of the verbs to complete the sentences. l) Some new documentaries (have/had) been lately shown on Channel 4. 2) Dick remembered that those short stories (have/had) been read on the radio by some popular actors. 3) When we entered the room, the television (has/had) been turned on and my parents were watching the news. 4) Thanks to television Walt Disney’s cartoons (have/had) been spread all over the world. 5) When I came to Troitsk last year, I visited the new library that (has/had) been built there. 6) The Harry Potter films (have/had) been broadcast in all European countries. 7) The teacher told us that those problems (have/had) never been discussed. 8) Very few new species of animals (have/had) been lately discovered. 9) Unfortunately our car (has/had) not been washed and we had to drive to town in the dirty car. 10) Alice said that all invitation cards (have/had) been written.

Answer 1

Certainly! Let's go through each sentence and choose the correct forms of the verbs:

1) Some new documentaries have lately been shown on Channel 4.

2) Dick remembered that those short stories had been read on the radio by some popular actors.

3) When we entered the room, the television had been turned on, and my parents were watching the news.

4) Thanks to television, Walt Disney’s cartoons have been spread all over the world.

5) When I came to Troitsk last year, I visited the new library that had been built there.

6) The Harry Potter films have been broadcast in all European countries.

7) The teacher told us that those problems had never been discussed.

8) Very few new species of animals have been lately discovered.

9) Unfortunately, our car had not been washed, and we had to drive to town in the dirty car.

10) Alice said that all invitation cards had been written.

In these sentences, we use "have" for actions or events that occurred in the past but have relevance to the present (present perfect tense). We use "had" for actions or events that occurred before another past action or a specific time in the past (past perfect tense). The choice depends on the context and the relationship between different events.