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Use Simple Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, or Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Use Simple Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, or Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Use simple past, past continuous,past perfect, or past perfect continuous tense
If only I (invite) to participate in the project earlier. I do not have time now.
She speaks as if she (know) him, but they have just met.
They live as though they (have ) money to burn. But hey are broke.
The teacher would rather the student (learn) this by themselves, but they do not know anything now.
2- I __________ (play) tennis, so I had a shower. I was annoyed because I__________ (not win) a single
game.
3- When I saw Bob last week he said he _____ ____ (stop) smoking .But when I saw him twodays later,
he __________ (smoke) a cigarette and ________ (look)rather ashamed.
4- The walkers finally arrived at their camp They _____________ (walk) all day and they _______ (need)
a rest. They had walked thirty miles.
5- He was very unhappy when someone else__________ (take) the final award, becausehe__________
(work) so hard to get it.
6- I __________ (stand) at the bus-stop when the accident _________(happen). After theaccident
_________(happen), I _________ (run) to the phone for an ambulance.
7- I knew by the look on their faces that they _____________(talk) about me.
8- The thieves __________ (leave) the building by the time the police _________(arrive).
9- I was very angry when my boy friend finally _________ (arrive), because I_________ (wait) for him
for an hour.
10- A little boy ________ (steal) my handbag while I__________(look) in a shop window.
11- Harry found a note from Terry in Julia’s coat. That’s how Harry found out they __________ (have) a
love affair. In fact they ________ (be) together for months. Terry’swife__________(know) about it all
the time.
12- She went into the living room. Nobody was there - but the television was still warm.Someone
____________ (watch) it.
13- The police_________ (look) for the criminal for two years before they ________ (catch)him.
14- I________(see) you yesterday. You ________ (sit) on the balcony, but you _________(not see) me
15- Her eyes were still wet because she __________ (cry).
16- I__________ (never/see) her boy friend until I __________ (meet) him at the party lastweek