新概念三第五课的一个句子
However,he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he imformed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.
倒数第四个单词为什么前面没有are?是单纯的过去式吗?请顺便帮我分析一下这个句子吧~