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Grammar-PastSimpleContPerfect

The document provides exercises for practicing the Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect tenses in English. It includes multiple-choice questions, sentence completion tasks, and a passage that requires filling in the correct verb forms. The exercises aim to enhance understanding and usage of different past tenses.

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Grammar-PastSimpleContPerfect

The document provides exercises for practicing the Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect tenses in English. It includes multiple-choice questions, sentence completion tasks, and a passage that requires filling in the correct verb forms. The exercises aim to enhance understanding and usage of different past tenses.

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Past Simple / Past Continuous / Past Perfect

A Choose the correct answer.

I heard a knock at the front door so I (went / was going) to answer it.

At this time yesterday, I (wrote / was writing) an essay.

The football season (began / was beginning) a month ago.

She (had graduated / graduated) from school in 2001.

We entered the house quietly because everyone (was sleeping / had slept).

By the time we (got / had got) to the cinema, the film had already started.

The children (were playing / played) in the garden while their parents were watching them.

They (had left / left) many hours before we arrived.

B Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the Past
Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.

They ....had got.. (get) to the airport as the plane was landing. (answer: got)
She wore the shoes (buy) the previous day. (answer: had
she ...........bought.... bought)
I fell as (run) for the bus.(answer: was running)
I ..........ran...........
What ..........had she (say) when he asked her to marry him?
said........ (answer: did she say)
When I was a student, I ..........hadn’ t (not have) much money. (answer: didn’t
had have)
Why ..........had she still (work) at one o’clock in the morning?
worked....... (answer: was she still working)
I was happy to see her, because we (not see) each other for years.
didn't see.. (answer: hadn’t seen)
By the time we got to the shop, a long queue ......had already
(form) .....
formed....... ..................
outsider.
.............

C Choose the sentence which is closer in meaning to the original.

1. I had already seen the film but I decided to watch it again last night.

○ I watched the film last night for the first time.

Last night wasn’t the first time that I had seen the film.

2. The boys were playing football while it was raining.

○ The boys were playing football until it started to rain.

○ The boys played football in the rain.

3. I was writing an e-mail when our computer broke down.

○ Our computer broke down before I wrote an e-mail.

○ I had started writing an e-mail and then our computer broke down.

4. My aunt bought me a lovely gift after she had spent the summer holiday with us.

○ When the summer holiday was over, my aunt bought me a lovely gift.

○ While my aunt was spending the summer holiday with us, she bought us a lovely gift.

D Complete the passage with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
Until a few years ago, no one ....had heard........... (hear) of Harry Potter, the young wizard and hero of the
1.
.
2.
children’s book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The writer, J K Rowling, .....wrote (had already
written)...........
(already / write) several stories and books, but this was the first book that was published. She
3. (get) the idea for the story of a wizard at magic school while she
..........got...........
4. 5. (reach
.......travelled (was (travel) on a train to London. By the time the train .....had reached
)
traveling)........... (reached)....
King’s Cross station, she (invent) most of the characters. When the book was published
6.
.invented (had invented)..
7. (imagine) it would be such a tremendous success, but it quickly
in 1997, no one had
imagined (imagined)......
8. (become) a bestseller. While millions of young readers in many
..became..........
countries
9. 10. Have thought (think)
...were (enjoy) her first Harry Potter book, J K Rowling
of
enjoying.............. (thought)

ideas for the next book in this incredibly popular series.

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