Advanced Language Practice

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Advanced Language Practice
Decide whether the tense underlined is suitable or not in the context given.If you decide it is unsuitable,
write a correction. If you decide it is suitable, write "suitable".
a) The train (1) ground to a halt at a small station miles from London, and it (2) became apparent that the
engine (3) had broken down. Everyone (4) was getting their cases down from the luggage racks, and we (5)
were waiting on the platform in the freezing wind for hours until the next train (6) had turned up.
1) 4)
2) 5)
3) 6)
b) The other strange thing about our neighbour Mrs Black was that she (1) would never go out if it was raining.
She (2) used to look up at the sky whenever (3) it was getting cloudy, and as soon as even the smallest drop of
rain (4) was falling she (5) had scuttled back into her house and (6) was locking herself in her bedroom!
1) 4)
2) 5)
3) 6)
c) Inspector Gorse (1) was in touch with Thames Valley Police six months before Professor Dowson (2) was
disappearing, because the Professor's wife Jean (3) would write to him, accusing her husband of plotting to
murder her. And now it was the Professor who (4) disappeared. Gorse (5) considered what his next step should
be when the phone rang. It was Sergeant Adams from Thames Valley. A fisherman (6) discovered a body in the
Thames near Reading, and it fitted the description of the Professor.
1) 4)
2) 5)
3) 6)