Quiz 1: Decide whether to use Past Perfect or Past Perfect Progressive tense in the following sentences. Complete the sentences by choosing the correct option. I to get passes for that new play for two months before my sister finally got them. had tried had been trying When I reached the Atrium Cinema, my friend already up the tickets. had picked had been picking My father was really furious because he for more than two hours when I arrived. had been waiting had waited

I had been trying to get passes for that new play for two months before  my sister finally got them. When i reached the Atrium Cinema, my friend already had picked up the tickets.

My father was really furious because he had been waiting.

Explanation:

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.