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5 Complete the exercises.
A Complete the sentences with the words in parentheses. Use the past perfect progressive.
Then compare your answers with a partner.
1. By the time Sylvia was 18, she had been hiking (hike) for several years.
2. Two German hikers (follow) a difficult trail
when they lost their way.
The Danish hikers (prepare) dinner when a bear
approached their campsite.
Two young hikers were getting ready to go home. They
(not camp) for very long when they lost interest.
The rescue workers (stay) at the park office
before they moved into a house nearby the park.
Yesterday, George rescued a hiker who (wait)
for help for over 12 hours.
Some hikers were worried. They (head) back to
the camp when they heard thunder, and they had to look for shelter.
They (not think) about the weather until the sky
turned very dark.
B Complete the questions about the people in exercise A.
1. How long had Sylvia been hiking _ by the time she was 18?
2. What kind of trail the German hikers when
they lost their way?
What the Danish hikers when the
bear approached?
How long the two young hikers
when they lost interest?
Where the rescue workers before
they moved?
How long the hiker for help?
Where the hikers when they
heard thunder?
the hikers about the weather before?
52 PRESENT AND PAST: PERFECT AND PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
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