exercises from page 255 to page 259 from Grammar in progress - MOsso -

1. had pierced 
2. had broken
3. had taken
4. had hidden
5. had lost
6. had already had

1. watched; had gone
2. had phoned; left
3. arrived; had not started
4. did you get; found; had spilled
5. opened; had; had bought; had put
6. had you ever skater; had been

1. looked
2. began
3. had 
4. had died
5. pained
6. played 
7. watched
8. never lived
9. rested
10. thought
11. had been
12. /
13. thought
14. locked
15. told
16. didn’t want 
17. filled
18. never felt
19. knew
20. gathered

1. Anthony had been eating hamburgers for months
2. i had been trying to get the tickets for the concert for weeks
3. how long had they been plying football
4. the students he’d been revising their lesson for hours
5. they had been quarreling their parents for a long time
6. how long had you been playing music at full volume
7. the storm had been raging all afternoon 
8. i was walking because my leg had been hurting for too long

1. had been suffering
2. had been swimming
3. had been wandering
4. had been climbing
5. had been fasting
6. had been taking
7. had been keeping
8. had been eating

1. had started
2. had they collected
3. had been cooking
4. had been knowing
5. had just burnt
6. had been traveling
7. hadn’t talked 
8. had you been studying 

1. has been waiting 
2. likes
3. had just left
4. is ringing
5. hasn’t broken 
6. has struck
7. fly
8. always stop

1. don’t often have; wanted
2. have you eaten
3. have you ever had; have; don’t play
4. has taken; took; never remember
5. ‘ve cooked; are telling me;they are not coming
6. built; closed; is always
7. aren’t you leaving; left
8. always does; didn’t do
9. is leaving; are; arrived; 
10. have been playing, got

Miss. Beltramini,

how are you?

in this period i’ve been very busy doing a lot of stuff and i wanted to tell you that i didn’t do my homework for today, i’m really sorry.

what have you been doing up to now? 

i hope i’ll have time to do it for our next lesson and learn the new things we learnt

could you please tell me where to find the new things we have studied up to now

sorry if the letter is short but i have to go,

thanks goodbye

Matilde