Narrative tenses

What narrative tenses can we use to describe a past event?

Use past perfect to:

• Describe a perfect event

• Describe an event that happened after another one in the past

• Describe an event that happened before another one in the past

• Describe a finished actioned in the past.

Which image represents the past perfect tense?

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I ______ when my boss _____

• had already go back home / asked me for a new report

• went back home / had asked me for a new report

• had already gone back home / asked me for a new report

The film had started _______I ate dinner

• after

• before

• by

______ he left work, he'd finished all his emails.

• while

• after

• by the time

Use "past perfect continuous" to

• Describe an action that continued for a period of time before another in the past.

• Describe an action that happened before another in the past.

By the time the help arrived,

• we had been waiting for 2 hours

• we waited for 2 hours

Invent an example of a present perfect continuous sentence using "by the time"