sentence pattern notes!!!!!

N. Clause

That she can come to the party is really fantastic..

What lies ahead is unknown.

We hope that John will come.

Even though I like what he did for me,...
It was Columbus that discovered America in 1492.

L10
Past Perfect V-ing

- this is like the Past Perfect but it expresses a longer activity in the past before another activity in the past :

I was absolutely exhausted. I had been mending the roof.



- to show something that had been happening before something else :

I had been playing football for 2 hours when my friend arrived.
- to express something that had been happening over a period of time in the past until another point :

He fainted because he had been riding a bike for five hours.
- to express something that had been happening in preparration for something else :

I had been studying for five days and I was ready for the exam.
- we use this tense in conditional Type III to show imagined conditions :

If I hadn't missed the bus, I wouldn't have been late for the exam.
- to refer to an activity that was in process :

By the time they got to the pub, we had already been waiting for 2 hours.

Inform/ notify Sb of Sth
Except= Except for