Exploring grammar Past simple and past perfect 2 Choose the correct form of the verbs. Everyone loves holidays, but do you ever think about who invented)/ had invented them? We don't know who took the first holiday, but the first person in the UK to sell holiday travel (1) was/ had been Thomas Cook. Thomas Cook's big success (2) came/had come with the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was held in London at the Crystal Palace. He (3) started / had started his travel business ten years earlier in 1841, but 1851 (4) changed / had changed everything. The Great Exhibition showed amazing exhibits from all around the world, and people (5) didn't see/hadn't seen anything like it before. Everyone (6) wanted / had wanted to go there, but most people (7) didn't travel/hadn't travelled out of their home town before. They needed someone to organize their trip, so Thomas Cook (8) sold/had sold train tickets. His trips were a smash hit. When the Great Exhibition closed, 6.2 million people (9) visited / had visited it, and a lot of them (10) travelled / had travelled with Thomas Cook. After that, Thomas Cook's business grew and grew, and when he died in 1892 he (11) became/ had become a very rich man.
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