Pride and Prejudice
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Consider the following quotes from Pride and Prejudice (Austen, 1813). Label the tense and aspect used in bold.
1. Why, at that rate, you will have been here only six weeks. I expected you to stay two months.
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2. With a glance, she saw that he had lost none of his recent civility.
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3. They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I can get them.
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4. I dare say you will find him very agreeable.
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5. I was in great hopes that one of you would have got a husband before you came back.
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6. Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme.
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7. “I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth” said her uncle.
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8. “Your housekeeper,” she added, “informed us that you would certainly not be here till tomorrow.”
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9. I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.
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10. The two girls had been whispering to each other during the whole visit.