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Pregunta 104

Which sentence about past habits contains a tense-choice error?

  1. When we were children, we would have a tandem in the shed.Respuesta correcta
  2. On cold evenings, Dad would warm our gloves beside the stove.
  3. This field used to belong to the railway company.
  4. After a year on the island, Theo is used to travelling by boat.

Explicación

Possessing a tandem is a state, so habitual would cannot express that meaning of have; used to or the past simple is needed. Warming gloves is a repeated action, belonging describes a discontinued state with an appropriate form, and present familiarity with boat travel correctly takes be used to plus an ing-form.

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