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Past Simple or Past Perfect

The document provides 23 sentences in simple past or past perfect tense for the user to supply the appropriate form of the verbs in parentheses to complete each sentence. It tests the user's knowledge of when to use simple past versus past perfect tense.

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Past Simple or Past Perfect

The document provides 23 sentences in simple past or past perfect tense for the user to supply the appropriate form of the verbs in parentheses to complete each sentence. It tests the user's knowledge of when to use simple past versus past perfect tense.

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Supply a suitable SIMPLE PAST or PAST PERFECT TENSE:

1. My mother _____________________ (worry) a lot about me before she _____________________ (hear) that I was
safe with my friends.
2. I didn’t like Romania; It _____________________ (be) much smaller than I_____________________ (expect).
3. By the time the firefighters ____________________(arrive) the building__________________(already / burn)
down.
4. They _____________________ (go) to the cinema after they _____________________(finish) their dinner.
5. She ______________ just _____________ (enter) the room when the door_____________________ (open) and
Jason _____________________ (enter).
6. His mother wanted to know why he _____________________ (not / study) his lessons the previous day.
7. After he _____________________ (work) for the software company for two years he_____________________
(decide) to give it up.
8. When I _____________________ (arrive) at the station the train _____________ already_____________(leave).
9. We _____________________ (live) in Italy before we _____________________ (move) to Spain.
10. By the time the meeting _____________________(finish), they _____________________ (leave) the room.
11.Pat ___________________________(live) in London before she _____________________(move) to Rome.
12.After Fred __________________________(spend) his holiday in Italy he ____________________(want) to learn
Italian.

13.Jill _________________________(phone) Dad at work before she ______________________(leave) for her trip.

14.Susan ______________________(switch) off the radio after she ________________________(wash) up.

15.When she ________________________(arrive) the football


match____________________________________(already/start).

16.After the man _______________________(come) home he _________________________(feed) the cat.

17.Before he ___________________________(sing) the new song in public he


___________________________(practise) it for hours.

18.She ________________________(watch) a video after the children ___________________________(go) to bed.

19.After Eric ____________________________(make) his breakfast he ___________________________(call) his


friend.

20.I _______________________(be) very tired because I ___________________________(study) too much.

21.They ____________________________(ride) their bikes before they ________________________(meet) their


friends.

22.When Tom _________________________(wake up), his mother ________________________________(already/


prepare) his breakfast.

23.We __________________________(travel) to London last Monday because the Queen


_______________________________ (invite) us to tea.
14.When she _________________________(start) to learn Chinese, she
_______________________________(alredy/ learn) Japanese.

15.Jane ___________________________(type) her exercise when her computer


___________________________(break) up.

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