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Consecutive Clauses — Proposizioni Consecutive·Consecutive Clauses with Past Tenses
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Rule reminder

In consecutive clauses with past tenses, the result clause uses the appropriate past tense: 'era così stanco che si addormentò' (passato remoto for completed action) or 'si era addormentato' (trapassato prossimo if the result preceded another past event).

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Era così esausto dopo il viaggio che _____ immediatamente.

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