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Explaining Earlier Past Events

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to show clearly that one past event happened before another past event.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. By the time I arrived at the station, the train had already left.
    2. She was tired because she had not slept well the night before.
    3. After we had finished the meeting, we went out for lunch.
    4. I had never seen such a large crowd before I attended that concert.
    5. They realized that they had taken the wrong road.
  • Grammar Focus: Past perfect for events completed before another point or event in the past
  • Vocabulary Focus: previously, realize, departure, crowd, sequence
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