Question

Fill in the blanks with the past perfect form of the verbs given in brackets: 

I …………. (fail) to catch the train on that fateful day. If I ……….. (come) five minutes earlier, 

I ………… (tell) myself that I would never be late again.

Answer 1

I had failed to catch the train on that fateful day. If I had come five minutes earlier, I had told myself that I would never be late again.