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Hello there,

Would you please arrange the words into respective English tenses (Present Perfect and Past Indefinite) ?

We____hungry. We____. (to be, just to have lunch)


Is this version acceptable/correct: weren't, had just have lunch?
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We weren't hungry for we'd had lunch already.
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The version with “weren’t” and “had just have lunch?” is not exactly correct. Here is how it would be written:

We were not hungry. We had just had lunch.
We weren’t hungry. We’d just had lunch.

Here is another option for what you could put in those blanks:

We were hungry, so we just had lunch.

I hope this is helpful.
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Thank you very much!
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