Two questions are about past perfects. One is about perfects. The other is about perfects.
They have 2 questions who “how do I get correct answers”?
When
I applied for a job, I figured out that the job was gone. I contacted IT Solutions, as an IT engineer (or a finance executive) and started applying.
I think it should be “He was applying”?
Second:
She left before anyone had had / was having a chance to explain the situation.
What is the fittest one and that’s the will?
If I’m really wrong, could you explain why?
Edit:
I think it is the depressing effect of tweets.
The past perfect is formed by: Had + past participle In the first
sentence you should try to think about it like this: “Man tried to apply for the job,man filled the application form,but the job was already taken.” So the verb refers to a finished action
Was applying could be used if he started to apply but was stopped :
While he was applying a woman asked him a question.
The second statement has to be easier but as an action, think about it like an action that didn’t happened: the phrase it’s not about something that was in progress, so again there’s no use of past continuous form. I might read up on twitter and facebook
about this blog but there’s also more information here.
What are your thoughts on the first one, but with the second one?
I am having a hard time
getting used to life in a rural village, after having grown up in West Virginia.
DISCRETE ACTION AT A POINT IN TIME
The CEO had left for another meeting before I had a chance to explain the numbers on the report. What is the reason why the CEO of ERM was gone before the CEO had even introduced the numbers. So,
I left him for
another meeting while he had not seen me explain the numbers on the report to him.
or with the simple past
The company left for another meeting before I had a chance to explain the numbers on the report to him.
A chance is perceived to be a momentary occurrence, not a prolonged period of opportunity.
(Stories): OK Here she comes. What is the best way to ask her to a spring dance?
If you are an unlucky girl, here she comes. What is she doing? What’s your chance to ask a girl to dance springtime again?
