Grammar: Past simple, Past perfect, and Past A.

Put the verbs between brackets in the

perfect continuous simple past.
1.0 Past simple: 1. I (go) ………..…… to the theatre last night.
Use: We use the past simple to talk about events, actions,
2. He (fail) ………..… his driving test yesterday.
activities, or situations that began and ended at a 3. Where (you / go) ……………………….. for your
particular time in the past. Often, the time is mentioned. holidays?
4. (you / watch) ……………….………… the movie
- With most verbs, the past tense is formed by adding -ed last week?
(called, wanted, worked, studied…), but there are a lot of 5. He (not visit) ………………..………… his friends
irregular past tense forms in English (write – wrote, speak this morning.
– spoke, drive – drove …)
B. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct
Form:
The past simple is formed in this way: form or tense.
Subject + simple past form of a verb …. 1. The police arrested the man who (break)
- Examples ………………………….… into my neighbor’s s house.
- Affirmative (+) : His met his wife in 1985.
2. When I arrived at the party, Tom wasn’t
- Negative (-) : I didn't see you yesterday.
- Interrogative (?) : (When) Did you get your Bac? there. He (go) ………..……………….… home.
1985 202_ 2026 3. (Tom / begin) …………………..……….… his project
Past Present Future before anyone else did?
X
(met) (now) 4. The police (look for) …………….……………….… the
criminal for 2 years before the caught him.
2. Past perfect: 5. By the age of twenty, Ben (complete) ……….…
………………… his university degree.
Use: We use the past perfect to talk about an event or
situation in the past which happened before another past 6. Her eyes (be) ……………… red because she had
event. been crying.
7. As soon as he (finish) ……….………..…………. his
Form:
The past perfect is formed in this way: dinner, he went out.
8. I did not recognize Mrs. Johnson he
Subject + had + past participle of a verb ….
- Examples (change) ………..……………….… a lot.
- Affirmative : When I arrived, she had left. 9. George didn’t want to come to the movies
- Negative : We hadn't studied the vocabulary
with us because he (already /see) …………………
before we took the exam.
…………….… the film twice.
- Interrogative : (When) Had you spoken to him
(before you met each other)? 10. I (live) ……………… in Madrid in 1976.
11. It was my first time in an airplane. I was
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Past the present Future very nervous because I (never / fly) ………………
X X ………………………. before.
(1) left (2) arrived (now)
12. He (win) ………… several medals last week.
13. Bill no longer had his car. He (sell) …………
3. Past perfect continuous:
………….…… it.
Use: We use the past perfect continuous to say how long 14. The house (be) …………… very quiet when I
something had been happening before something else got home. Everybody had gone to bed.
happened (in the past).
15. Ken (smoke) …………………..…………….… for 30

Form:
years before he finally gave it up.
The past perfect continuous is formed in this way: 16. I was very tired when I got home. I had

Subject + had + been + present participle of a verb …. (work) ……………………………….… hard all day.
- Examples
- Michael and Susan had been emailing each other 17. How long (you / wait) …………………………….…
for 2 year before they met.
when the bus finally came?
- Thankfully, she had not been smoking for a
year before she got pregnant. 18. My grandmother (die) ………………… in 2007.
- (Where) Had you been working (at your job for a
long time before you quit)? 19. He was out of breath. He (run) ………………..

2019 202_ 2024 ………………………….….

Past the present Future
x 20. She knew Morocco very well because she
(1) had been emailing (2) met (now)
(visit) ………………………….… it several time before.
We use the past perfect continuous to say how long something had been happening before something else
happened.

I went to the theatre last night.

He met his wife in 1983.
Where did you go for your holidays?

We use the past perfect and past simple in one sentence to show the of past events. Compare the following
sentences:
When I arrived, she left. (I arrived and then she left)
. (She left before I arrived

- We use the simple past to talk about something that happened / occurred at a specific time in the past.