V. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form, using the past perfect or simple past tense as appropriate. Use the continuous forms if necessary. 1. Jake (graduate) in 1987 and (spend) two years applying for jobs before he (be offered) the one he (want).
2. Tom (look) for the right person to be his wife for five years before he (meet) and (fall) in love with Sally.

3. If I (know) what to do, everything would have been all right. As it (be), everything (go) wrong.
4. Mary (have) a nervous breakdown last year. No one (be) surprised. She (work) much too hard for months.
5. The garden (look) absolutely lovely last year, mainly because of the hard work we (put in) the previous autumn

can you elaborate on what the question asks?

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.