z7655431
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- Joined
- Jan 12, 2016
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- Taiwan
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- Taiwan
1. Tom worked/had worked in this shop for 10 years when he was young. But he left there many years ago.
2. Jim was/had been a teacher for ten years, from 1995 to 2005. Now he is a salesman.
3. Mrs. Won was/had been in our class for three months, but then she left school to get a job
In the red parts of the three sentences above, the answers are all was (the simple past tense). But, I myself would choose had been (the past perfect tense), because of the terms of for a period of time. Could anybody tell me what are the real answers here? And, in sentence 3, is "but then" used correctly? Why not "and then"? Thanks!
P.S
Probably two of the three sentences are either from my teacher's handouts or from my grammar book (Azar). (I'm not sure because I am now on winter vacation living at home, but most of my books are in my dorm. I copied those sentences into Word long time a ago.) And, sentence 1 is from one of my Facebook Group. There's someone asking that sentence, and I copied it.
Also, the title should be [h=2]Verb Tense-S was/had been... for XX...--Tom "worked" in this shop for 10 years when...[/h]
2. Jim was/had been a teacher for ten years, from 1995 to 2005. Now he is a salesman.
3. Mrs. Won was/had been in our class for three months, but then she left school to get a job
In the red parts of the three sentences above, the answers are all was (the simple past tense). But, I myself would choose had been (the past perfect tense), because of the terms of for a period of time. Could anybody tell me what are the real answers here? And, in sentence 3, is "but then" used correctly? Why not "and then"? Thanks!
P.S
Probably two of the three sentences are either from my teacher's handouts or from my grammar book (Azar). (I'm not sure because I am now on winter vacation living at home, but most of my books are in my dorm. I copied those sentences into Word long time a ago.) And, sentence 1 is from one of my Facebook Group. There's someone asking that sentence, and I copied it.
Also, the title should be [h=2]Verb Tense-S was/had been... for XX...--Tom "worked" in this shop for 10 years when...[/h]
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