Beloved – answers to exercise

  1. Libby arrives
  2. They name her
  3. They looked after Libby and saw to her every need
  4. The writer feels jealousy
  5. Libby has a friend they don’t know about
  6. Libby runs away
  7. Diana continues to worry about Libby
  8. They decide to give Libby some freedom
  9. Libby doesn’t take the freedom offered
  10. The writer loses the feelings of jealousy
  11. The reader needs to understand that the writer was not always jealous

Highlighted Tenses:

had called – Past Perfect

was – Past Simple

had given – Past Perfect

had come – Past Perfect

would sit – Past Simple (with modal verb would)

would have done – Present Perfect

did – Past Simple

was – Past Simple

wanted – Past Simple

was given – Past Simple (passive)

did feel – Past Simple

were – Past Simple

would feel – Past Simple

had been excluded Past Perfect (passive)

do not be misled – Present Simple

returned – Past Simple

had needed – Past Perfect

loved – Past Simple

loved – Past Simple

was – Past Simple

grew – Past Simple

was heard – Past Simple (passive)

continued – Past Simple

relished – Past Simple

had – Past Simple

needed – Past Simple

wanted – Past Simple

was – Past Simple

was – Past Simple

did leave – Past Simple

would – Past Simple

were – Past Simple

drove – Past Simple

had seen – Past Perfect

seemed – Past Simple

was – Past Simple

tried – Past Simple

could – Past Simple

could not – Past Simple

could – Past Simple

had spread – Past Perfect

had never been – Past Perfect

had just lost – Past Perfect

have enjoyed – Present Perfect

tried – Past Simple

told – Past Simple

felt – Past Simple

saw – Past Simple

was – Past Simple

had – Past Simple

was understood – Past Simple (passive)

seemed – Past Simple

went – Past Simple

had felt – Past Perfect

returned – Past Simple

was – Past Simple

had felt – Past Perfect

had had – Past Perfect

disappeared – Past Simple