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1) Jill knew that her friend Sasha had been feeling sad for the past two months since Sasha's mother had died. They had not had a chance to talk since it happened. 2) Sasha arrived at Jill's house on Saturday afternoon after Jill had called her the previous day to invite her over for coffee and cookies, which Jill had been baking all day. 3) They enjoyed each other's company as always in the past and were happy to be together again as Sasha recalled things she had found and sorted through her mother's belongings, such as scrapbooks her mother had been making, including one incomplete one about wildflowers Sasha and her mother had often collected on walks before Sasha became

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Past Tense Exercise 36 PDF

1) Jill knew that her friend Sasha had been feeling sad for the past two months since Sasha's mother had died. They had not had a chance to talk since it happened. 2) Sasha arrived at Jill's house on Saturday afternoon after Jill had called her the previous day to invite her over for coffee and cookies, which Jill had been baking all day. 3) They enjoyed each other's company as always in the past and were happy to be together again as Sasha recalled things she had found and sorted through her mother's belongings, such as scrapbooks her mother had been making, including one incomplete one about wildflowers Sasha and her mother had often collected on walks before Sasha became

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Exercise 36
Past Tense
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple
past perfect tense or past perfect progressive tense.

Jill knew that her friend Sasha (feel) _______ _______ _______ (1) sad lately.
Sasha's mother (die) _______ _______ (2) two months before, and the two friends (not,
have) _____ _______ _______ (3) a chance to talk since it happened.
Sasha arrived at Jill's house at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Jill (call)
_______ _______ (4) her friend on Friday to invite her to over for coffee and cookies.
Glancing at the mess in the kitchen, Sasha guessed that Jill (bake) _______ _______
_______ (5) cookies all day.
The women talked for a couple of hours. They (always, enjoy) _______
_______ _______ (6) each other's company in the past, and were happy to be together
again. Sasha recalled some of the things that she (find) _______ _______ (7) as she
(sort) _______ _______ (8) through her mother's belongings.
"It seems that, for some time before Mom died, she (make) _______ _______
_______ (9) three scrapbooks," said Sasha. "The last one (never, be) _______ _______
_______ (10) completed."
"What did they contain?" asked Jill.
"One contained all of the awards I (win) _______ _______ (11) before I reached sixth
grade," answered Sasha, "along with pictures of my friends and me. I knew that mom
(always, take) _______ ______ _______ (12) lots of pictures, but I didn't know how many.
The second was a collection of memorabilia from my high school years."
"And the third?" prompted Jill.
Sasha paused and smiled before answering, "Mom and I (often, go) _______
_______ _______ (13) on walks together to gather wildflowers before I became a
teenager," Sasha replied. "Before she died, she (make) _______ _______ _______ (14)
a scrapbook to hold all of the flowers we (collect) ______ _______ (15)."

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