Предмет: Английский язык, автор: hacizza2003

1. Use the correct tense and voice.
1. It was 20 years ago and I 1.(to live) in
Paris. I 2.(to earn) very little and 3.(can keep) hardly body and soul together. One of my readers, a lady wrote to me about one of my books she 4.(to read). She asked me if 15.(to give) her a little luncheon.
16.(to answer) that I 7.(to meet) her at the restaurant on Thursday 11.30.
The next day when she came 18.(to
wait) for her for an hour. She was a woman of forty and not very attractive. When the waiter brought the menu, she said: "I never
9.(to eat) many things. I 10.(to eat) only one thing, a little fish, perhaps."

Ответы

Автор ответа: amanda2sempl
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It was 20 years ago and I lived in Paris.

I earned very little and could keep hardly body and soul together.

One of my readers, a lady wrote to me about one of my books she had read.

She asked me if I would give her a little luncheon.

I answered that I would meet her at the restaurant on Thursday 11.30.

The next day when she came I was waiting for her for an hour.

She was a woman of forty and not very attractive.

When the waiter brought the menu, she said: "I never eat many things.

I eat only one thing, a little fish, perhaps."


hacizza2003: Why we use in third sentence past perfect?
Fifth sentence “would meet”?
amanda2sempl: third sentence: Lady had read book →←earlier→← than she wrote to me. "She had read book" - action that happened before
amanda2sempl: Fifth sentence “would meet” - Rule that calls: "Future in the past"
hacizza2003: Why we use future in the past fifth sentence?
amanda2sempl: She asked me if I would give her a little luncheon – item 27 in TASK https://znanija.com/task/40123287
amanda2sempl: Because in the second part of fifth sentence we are talking about action in future: I will meet her next day etc. But whole plot of the story supposes events had happened long time ago that's why we used "Future in the past"
hacizza2003: Thank you
amanda2sempl: "will meet" is transforming to "would meet"
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