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Past Perfect Tense Exercises

The document provides examples for using verbs in the past perfect and past simple tenses. It gives 10 sentences where the reader must use the past perfect form of the verb in brackets. It then gives 5 sentences where the reader must choose between the past simple or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets. The purpose is to test the understanding of when to use the past perfect versus past simple tenses.

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Past Perfect Tense Exercises

The document provides examples for using verbs in the past perfect and past simple tenses. It gives 10 sentences where the reader must use the past perfect form of the verb in brackets. It then gives 5 sentences where the reader must choose between the past simple or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets. The purpose is to test the understanding of when to use the past perfect versus past simple tenses.

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PAST PERFECT

I USE THE VERBS IN THE PAST PERFECT

1.Before I came home I _________________________________


(buy) some bread.
2.When we reached the theatre the performance
___________________________(already/start).
3.I knew I ________________________(see) the man somewhere.
4.She _______________________ (never/write) a letter to the Queen.
5.I tried my friend’s bike. I ______________________________
____________(not+ride) a bike before.
6.Tom did not come to school yesterday because he _____________________________ (fall)
ill.
7.My friend ____________________________ (never/eat) snails before.
8. Why _________________________________ (he/choose) the sports car?
9.Kate was so unhappy because she ______________________
__________________ (lose) her new hairband.
10.The rabbit ran away because he _______________________
_________________(forget) to close the door.

* USE EITHER THE PAST SIMPLE OR PERFECT

1.After they ______________________ (wash) up they ___________________(go) the


cinema.
2.We ______________________(not+can) read the book before we
_______________________ (finish) our homework.
3.After Granny _______________________ (wash) the apples she ________________(peel)
them.
4.Before our teacher ___________________ (come) to Viljandi she _____________________
(live) in Tartu.
5.After my brother ______________________ (find) his book he _______________(begin)
reading

TEST ON THE PAST PERFECT

I USE THE VERBS IN THE PAST PERFECT

1.Before I came home I _________________________________


(buy) some bread.
2.When we reached the theatre the performance
___________________________(already/start).
3.I knew I ________________________(see) the man somewhere.
4.She _______________________ (never/write) a letter to the Queen.
5.I tried my friend’s bike. I ______________________________
____________(not+ride) a bike before.
6.Tom did not come to school yesterday because he _____________________________ (fall)
ill.
7.My friend ____________________________ (never/eat) snails before.
8. Why _________________________________ (he/choose) the sports car?
9.Kate was so unhappy because she ______________________
__________________ (lose) her new hairband.
10.The rabbit ran away because he _______________________
_________________(forget) to close the door.

* USE EITHER THE PAST SIMPLE OR PERFECT


1.After they ______________________ (wash) up they ___________________(go) the
cinema.
2.We ______________________(not+can) read the book before we
_______________________ (finish) our homework.
3.After Granny _______________________ (wash) the apples she ________________(peel)
them.
4.Before our teacher ___________________ (come) to Viljandi she _____________________
(live) in Tartu.
5.After my brother ______________________ (find) his book he _______________(begin)
reading

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