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Past Simple Vs Past Perfect Exercises

The document contains sentences that need to be completed using the correct past simple or past perfect form of verbs. There are sentences about arriving at a bus station only to find the bus had already left, living with a wife for five years before getting married, and going to the cinema after finishing a music lesson. There are also sentences about living in England before moving to Greece and seeing the movie Titanic for the first time but not for the first time.

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Past Simple Vs Past Perfect Exercises

The document contains sentences that need to be completed using the correct past simple or past perfect form of verbs. There are sentences about arriving at a bus station only to find the bus had already left, living with a wife for five years before getting married, and going to the cinema after finishing a music lesson. There are also sentences about living in England before moving to Greece and seeing the movie Titanic for the first time but not for the first time.

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Constanza Aravena Orellana
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Complete the sentences. Use the correct form of the past simple and the past perfect.

1. That was (be) the first time I had met (meet) her.
2. We_________________ (not be) hungry, because we____________(eat) lunch
already.
3. Everybody_______________(go) to bed when I_______________(get) home.
4. We_________________(arrive) late, but luckily the film_____________(start).
5. They__________(take) my plate away, but I ____________(not finish) eating!
6. _______________ Jon ______________(see) the film before? Yes-
he_________(see) it last week.
7. I ________________(never had) a surprise party.

1. When we (arrive) at the bus station, the bus (leave /


already).

2. I (live) with my wife for five years when we (get) married.

3. They (go) to the cinema after they (finish) their music lesson.

4. John and I (live) in England before we (move) to Greece.

5. I (see) Titanic for the first time yesterday. I (see) it before.

1. Last week John to catch the 10 a.m. train, but he at


10.5 a.m. John the train becuase he late and the
train .

2. Yesterday Vanessa's birthday. Tom her a blue dress,


her sister her a blue dress and Aunt Sarah her a blue
dress. Tom, her sister and Aunt Sarah her three blue dresses.

3. Steve's car suddenly in High Street yesterday. A


policewoman him to push the car to the side of the road.
Steve very embarrassed when he the petrol tank was
empty. He to fill the tank. He any petrol in the tank.

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