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TEFL exercises - Upper intermediate materials - Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous

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1) She’s been gone for over an hour before anyone noticed.
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Is this past perfect?
2) I’d been asleep and haven’t realise they’d arrived.
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haven’t?
3) The course had been finished for some time by the time he got back.
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: )
4) Yesterday, she’d had to go back home because she forgotten her phone.
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Missing word
5) What they haven’t noticed was the sandstorm approaching in the distance.
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haven’t?
6) This morning, while running for the tram, I’d realised I dropped my wallet.
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verb in the wrong place
7) He wished he had the same opportunities for promotion as his colleague.
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Missing verb
8) She’d had an arrangement to go to the cinema with a friend but she’d had to cancel.
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: )
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