Can you help me to find the correct version of these?

Question

What’s the matter?

You’d been depressed all week.

You’re depressed all week.

You’ve been depressed all week.

 

 2. Why wasn’t Mia at work yesterday?

I think she had moved house.

I think she moved house.

I think she was moving house.

3. We were all very tired because….

we’ve just travelled back from Florida.

we are travelling back from Florida.

we had just travelled back from Florida.

4) When Julia married Scott….

she didn’t realise he was married before.

she hadn’t realised he had been married before.

she didn’t realise he’d been married before.

5. I saw Sarah with her new boyfriend yesterday.

They have had an argument.

They were having an argument.

They had an argument.

6. The whole country was in shock because…

the president had just died.

the president just died.

the president has just died.

Answer 1

Kaka: These are all past tense verb forms but they are changing depending on the time frame of the situation the person is referring to. The first question would be: You have been depressed all week. The speaker (talking in the present tense) is referring to the immediate past. The second one is a bit of a colloquialism 'moving house' being short hand for 'she was moving from one place to another' or 'she was moving from one house to another'. #3: The speaker is speaking of a past event 'we were tired' (back then) becasue we had just traveled. Everything is past tense. #4. Once again; talking in the past tense about something that happened maybe in some long ago time period (had not realized).

#5 - recent past - they were having an argument (past continuous - it was still going on when she saw it.)

#6 - the president had just died. This is a completed event that happened in the past and perhaps some period of time in the past. Thanks, CW