Lesson 10

The lesson 10 was focused on memoirs and past perfect and past perfect
continuous.

Memoirs:
“He had found a place he loved dearly, and he wanted to stay. During
previous incarnations he had been a wire-service reporter in Africa, a bar
owner in Chicago, a magazine editor in New York, a reform-school guard in
Idaho, and a timber-faller in the winter woods of Montana. He had
decided to quit the last before he cut off a leg with his chain saw, or
worse.”

“We were hustled onto a Dakota, a large military transport plane that had
seen better days. There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the
plane. Some of the others had never flown before and they seemed more
anxious about our voyage than our destination; bumping up and down in a
plane at fifteen thousand feet seemed far more perilous than being locked
in a cell behind high walls.” A Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
PAST PERFECT

It refers to a time in the past, not

the present. We had seen the movie
before.

For something that started in the When George died he and

past and continued up to a given Anne had been married for
time in the past nearly fifty years

For something that happened in I couldn’t get into the house.

the past but is important at the I had lost my keys.
time of reporting

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

For something we had done several He had written three books

times up to a point in the past and and he was working on
continued to do after that point another one.

We often use a clause with since to I had been watching that

show when something started in programme every week since
the past it started, but I missed the
last episode.
Write a few lines about your own memoir from the best day you have had
so far!

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