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24. Put in the past simple or past continuous. Note where both forms are possible.

Tug-of-war with a hedgehog

Mrs. May, our District Nurse, (drive)... home at 3 am. one night after an urgent visit to a sick patient. She (drive)... along a deserted country lane, when she (see)... a new kind of animal. She (stop)... her car and (get out)... The animal (be)... clearly visible

In the blaze of her headlights. It (look)... Like a hedgehog with a tall white hat. It

(cross)... the road without paying any attention to Mrs. May. When Mrs. May (go)...

close to it, she (notice)... that there was a plastic yoghurt pot on the hedgehog's head.

The poor creature had got its head stuck in the plastic head! Her instincts as a nurse

(tell)... her she would have to rescue it, so she (pull)... at the pot, but the hedgehog

(pull)... to. After a struggle, she (pull)... the pot off the hedgehog's head. May (think)... the hedgehog (look)... rather sad, when she (notice)... that the pot was half full of strawberry yoghurt. She (give)... it back to the hedgehog. The creature (seize) ... it, (put)... it on its head again, and triumphantly (continue)... its journey across the

road.

III. Past perfect

The Past Perfect Tense образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to have в Past Simple и причастия П (Participle II) смыслового глагола (табл. 6).

Таблица 6

Positive

I, you, he, she, it, we, they

had

studied

Negative

I, you, he, she, it, we, they

had not (hadn't)

studied

Question

Had

I, you, he, she, it, we, they

studied?

19

Употребляется для выражения:

1. Действия, которое произошло раньше другого действия в прошлом, выраженного формой Past Simple.

When Mary arrived at the party, Paul had gone home.

2. Действия, которое закончилось к определенному моменту в прошлом. Данный момент в прошлом может быть выражен точным указанием времени (года, числа, часа и т.д.) с предлогом времени by (к) или другим прошедшим действием, событием, ситуацией.

They had finished the experiment by Saturday. Время действия может быть обозначено такими обстоятельствами, как by the time, after, before, by six o' clock/ midnight, etc.

Exercises

1. Answer the following questions using the past perfect tense.

1 .Why couldn't you get into the flat? (lose the key)

  1. Why did you come so soon from your holiday? (spend all the money)

  2. Why didn't you ring Tom up? (quarrel with him)

  3. Why didn't Mike bring the photos to the party? (not develop mem)

  4. Why were you late for classes yesterday? (miss the 8 o'clock train)

  5. Why didn't you cook salad? (not buy vegetables)

  6. Why did he feel so upset? (lose his job)

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