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Link to Language : Discussing the Past 2 1 Look at the example sentences from paragraph 4 of the article "The Strange Case of Phineas Gage . " Before the injury , Gage had been a hard-working , dependable and polite worker . However , after the injury , he became a rude liar ... Notice the verbs used to describe past events . & Find additional examples from the article . In your notebook , place the verbs in a diagram like the one below . & Explain how the use of the two different tenses helps to distinguish between events that happened before and after the accident . Complete the explanation in your notebook . The Fast Ferfect is used in the sentence beginning with "Before the inj ury . .. " to describe . .. . The Fast Simp le is used in the sentence beginning with "However , after the inj ury ... " to describe . .. . Look at the following sentence from the article : Gage and his crew had been working with dynamite on a Vermont railroad line in the USA when he suffered a terrible injury . The verb had been working is in the Past Perfect Progressive and shows a continuous action ( working ) starting at a point in the past before the main reported event ( the injury he suffered ) . The Past Perfect Progressive is formed by using had + been + verb + ing 2 Place the two verbs from the above sentence in the diagram you used in activity 1 a . In your notebook , complete the following paragraph using the correct form of the verb . The doctors _ _ ( work ) with a patient for two years when they made an important discovery about the connection between memory problems and emotional trauma . All along , they _ _ ( think ) that the patient's memory loss _ _ ( be ) the result of his advanced age . Then the patient suddenly _ _ ( recover ) completely . This happened when his son , who ? ( walk out ) of the house following a terrible argument between them two years before , _ _ ( return ) home . More practice on
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