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19. Identify the events that happen in the story you selected.
Verb tenses: present and past perfect. Verb forms: gerund, past participle
• Number them in chronological order, 1 for what happened first, 2 for what followed,
and so on. Look at the example.

Example:
'My name is Helen Stoner,' she began, 'and I live with my stepfather,
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Dr Grimesby Roylott, near a village in the country. His family was once
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very rich, but they had no money when my stepfather was born. So
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he studied to be a doctor, and went out to India. He met and married
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Remember my mother there, when my sister Julia and I were very young.

Both present 7
perfect and past Our father was dead, you see.'
perfect talk about 4
something that
happened before 'Your mother had some money, perhaps?' asked Sherlock Holmes.
a point in time. In
the present perfect, 'Oh yes, mother had a lot of money, so my stepfather wasn't
our reference point
is the present. In 5 8
the past perfect, poor anymore.'
our reference point
is in the past. We
use present perfect 'Tell me more about him, Miss Stoner,' said Holmes.
to talk about an
action that started
in the past and 'Well, he's a violent man. In India he once got angry with his Indian
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continues to the servant and killed him! He had to go to prison because of that, and then
present (“I have
session 8 without my sister.”) we all came back to England. Mother died in an accident eight years
been very lonely
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or an action that
happened before
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now (“My stepfather
has agreed to
my marriage.”). ago. So my stepfather got all her money, but if Julia or I marry, he
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However, we use
past perfect to talk must pay us £250 every year.'
about an action
that happened
before a time in
the past (“When my • Share what you think about the story you selected.
stepfather was born,
his family had lost
all their money.”).

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