This will work better if you are set for "color & graphics", not "plain text".
   
  There is unanimity on these four, except as noted:
   
    If only she had kept quiet
   
  I had never eaten such a huge pizza before I went to Italy (2 votes for "never ate", including mine.)
   
  By the time his heart was transplanted he had undergone many medical procedures (with acknowledgement that it was not his heart; he was the recipient, NTS.)
   
  The show had already started when we arrived.

     
  Further input is needed for two of the remaining three. (I'm still working on the screw-ball lines about "washing-up", which proves the point that examples designed to teach verb forms should be unambiguous.)
   
  Notice the first verbs are a present tense and the second verbs are a past tense. Please check one of each pair (even if you didn't participate in the first round) and send it back to [log in to unmask] so I won't impose on anyone who may not want to be imposed upon. 

   
    (     ) They are amazed. They never heard of this song.
   
(     ) They are amazed. They have never heard of this song.
     

   
  (     ) They were amazed. They never heard of this song.
   
  (     ) They were amazed. They had never heard of this song.
   
  ---------------
   
  (     ) John is upset because his application was turned down.
   
  (     ) John is upset because his application has been turned down.
   
   
  (     ) John was upset because his application was turned down.
   
  (     ) John was upset because his application had been turned down.
   
  .thanks.brad.fri.08feb08.


       
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