Beloved – exercise
Beloved – exercise
Look at the verbs in bold. Decide which of the following tenses they are:
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Past Simple
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Past Perfect
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Present Perfect
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Present Simple
The manipulation of these tenses is important in story telling for sequencing events.
Beloved – exercise
Put the following events from the story in the order in which they happen.
- They looked after Libby and saw to her every need
- Libby doesn’t take the freedom offered
- The reader needs to understand that the writer was not always jealous
- Diana continues to worry about Libby
- Libby arrives
- The writer feels jealousy
- They name her
- Libby runs away
- The writer loses the feelings of jealousy
- Libby has a friend they don’t know about
- They decise to give Libby some freedom