
Then I have breakfast, I clean my bedroom and I brush my teeth. Then I often went round to my friend's house and we played there or here till bedtime'. On school days, I usually wake up at 6,30 when my alarm rings on my phone. Homework has two purposes: to give you a chance to identify gaps in your knowledge so that you can raise them with your teacher and to help embed class learnings in your head by making a second pass over the key concepts you covered that day. 'I would finish my homework by six, when I was a child. The father is talking, one Saturday afternoon, to a friend about their childhood days. Random Topics: Conditional Sentence Type 2 Sit vs. It was ll grades jumped, and settled, my being. Then I often went round to my friend's house and we played there or here till bedtime.' (Sequence: (1), (2), (3).) I felt now opened into a would show up passage containing nothing in order to homework do this decision.

As explained above, it makes good sense to say, from the perspective of stage (3), nine o'clock, 'I had done my homework by six when I was a child. Within this frame the time sequence is (1) homework (2) play (3) bed.

He is putting himself mentally into the child's situation, within this single evening time frame. Post 8 and post 10 offer a very specific context in which 'had done' will fit.Īs said already, in this context, the father is thinking of one time frame for the evening, both for his child now, and his own childhood in the past: as if he, the father, were still a child with homework today.
