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1. The past future perfect progressive is used in this sentence:

Originally this chair would have been covered with a colorful tapestry in a flame stitch.

2. The situation as it is described in the finite clause is an accomplishment:

Pell emptied his pockets before walking through a metal detector.

3. Tense simplification is possible in this sentence:

Apparently, the office manager had called him before the meeting anyway.

4. The situation described in the sentence in (i) necessarily occurred before the situation described in (ii) :

(i) Laura bought a new pair of shoes.

(ii) Laura has lost her keys.

5. The action of reading described in the following sentence could occur in the post-present time sphere:

Don't worry, yesterday when I met him, he told me he would read your email.

6. This sentence could also be used with in the progressive:

We received hundreds of applications from around the world.

7. This sentence is grammatical:

He told me he did not download any new music since he got caught.

8. In the following sentence, the progressive aspect is used to express ongoingness:

He was writing his essay when the power came off.

9. These two sentences illustrate the same situation type:

(i) The soup tastes sour.

(ii) The beauty of their clothes consisted in the fineness and colour of the stuff.

10. The future tense is used in this sentence:

I am moving to London next week.