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For/Employed Sister Job Months Looker For/Had Employed Looked

This flashcard tests the correct sequence of tenses. The action that happened first and continuously is in the past perfect continuous ('had been looking for'), and the later completed action is in the simple past ('employed').

My sister had been looking for a job for 2 months before they employed him.

Question My sister … a job for 2 months before they … him.
Title 695
QType (0=kprim,1=mc,2=sc) 2
Q_1 had looker for/employed
Q_2 was looking for/had employed
Q_3 looked for/employed
Q_4 had been looking for/employed
Answers 0 0 1 0

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