Poprosil by som o kontrolu časov v príbehu v 2. časti. 1. časť prikladám-tá už bola pred časom skontrolovaná. Ďakujem.

1. časť
One hot summer‘s day, Mr and Mrs Baley, from San Francisco, (1) were traveling home from Arizona where they (2) had visited Mrs Baley’s elderly grandmother. During their visit, Mrs Baley (3) persuaded her husband to let the old lady (4) live with them and so they (5) were bringing her home with them to San Francisco. They (6) were driving along through the desert, quite happily, the old woman (7) was sitting on the back seat, the couple (8) was chatting in the front. After a while, they (9) realised that the old woman (10) hadn’t spoken for some time. The wife (11) turned round to ask her if she was okay, as, earlier on, she (12) had complained about the terrible heat. However, the grandmother (13) did not reply.

2. časť

Mr and Mrs Baley (14) were returning home to San Francisco from Arizona (15) bringing home with them Mrs Baley’s elderly grandmother, whom they (16) had managed to persuade to come and live with them. As they (17) were driving along through the desert, the couple, sitting in the front, heard the grandmother (18) groan, then a strange silence.

Alarmed, they (19) stopped the car and rushed round to the back seat, only to find that unfortunately, the old woman (20) had died. Horrified, they decided they should lie her body, but (21) was rather a large woman, she would not fit on the back seat, so, in the end, they (22) tied her onto the roof-rack instead.

When they (23) were driving across the desert for some time, they came across a petrol station and decided to stop and phone the rest of the family with the dreadful news. However, as they (24) were coming out of the petrol station, to their horror, they saw their car (25) disappearing into the distance. Someone (26) had stolen their car!

č. 18 mohlo by tu byť aj groaning ?
č. 20 a 26 je tu dobre predminulý čas ?
č. 24 má tu byť priebehový čas alebo jednoduchý minulý čas ? Neviem či to je to isté ako píše Swan 43/1 – a longer background action .

Text som presne prepísal z papiera, ktorý som dostal ale v č. 21 mne chýba „she“ was rather.....

21 – being
23 – had been driving
24 – came (obě akce byly stejně dlouhé)