Question

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6 Discuss the differences in meaning
between the following pairs of
sentences.
When I arrived at the party, they were
eating cookies.
They had eaten all the cookies before I
arrived at the party.
. When our parents came home, we were
having supper.
We had eaten supper before our parents
came home.
When John called, I was reading a book.
I had read the book before John called.
4. When the bell rang, he was entering the
school.
He had entered the school before the
bell rang.​

Answer 1

Răspuns:

1.The first sentence is reffering to somthing they were doing and the other to somthing they did.

2.the first sentence is talking about what the subjects were doing

And the second is about what we did before they camw home

3.The first sentence if reffering to what i was doing when called and the other is to what i did before he called