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Test Paper - Past Tense

The document discusses different past tenses in English including: - Past simple for completed past actions (entered, slept, ended, watched, went, cheered) - Past continuous for ongoing past actions (was talking, was feeding, was doing) - Past perfect for actions completed before a point in the past (had graduated, had made, had argued)

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Test Paper - Past Tense

The document discusses different past tenses in English including: - Past simple for completed past actions (entered, slept, ended, watched, went, cheered) - Past continuous for ongoing past actions (was talking, was feeding, was doing) - Past perfect for actions completed before a point in the past (had graduated, had made, had argued)

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We use past simple tense for referring to

a completed action in the past; past continuous tense for


referring to a continuous
action going on at a specific time in the past and past
perfect tense for referring
to an action which happened before another past action.
1) Last night,Irems boyfriend .. the room while she was talking with another boy on
the phone.
a)was entering
b)entered
c)had
entered
2) Mary on the sofa when the baby started to cry.
a)had slept
b)slept
c)was
sleeping
3) World War 1 . when World War 2 began.
a)was already ending
b)had already ended
c)already
ended
4) Ece .. the movie Da Vinci Code at ten oclock yesterday.
a)watched
b)was watching
c)had
watched
5) The family last ... on a vacation in 2010.
a)was going
b)had gone
c)went
6) The crowd . after the mayor had made his speech.
a)had cheered
b)was cheering
c)cheered
7) We a huge,beautiful house when I was a child.
a)had
b)were having
c)had
had
8) Before the man ............. this job a year ago,he had graduated from university in 1999.
a)had found
b)found
c)was
finding
9) The girl .. on her project while her mother was feding her baby sister.
1) When I was three years old,
argued,
2) Before I went to bed yesterday,
3) Last summer,
4) While I was doing my homework yesterday,

5) After the couple had


6) When the bell rang,
7) I forgave him
8) The dog was barking

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