Past tenses Practice Choose the right form of the verb in brackets:1) I ___________ (buy)...

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Past tenses Practice
Choose the right form of the verb in brackets:1) I ___________ (buy) this car in January.
2) I had ________________ (finish) high school when the Great Depression ______________ (strike) the country.
3) We ____________ (take) a walk in the park when a heavy thunderstorm suddenly ____________ (break) out.
4) When I finally ______________ (wake) up, the clock radio ______________ (blare) for a good couple of hours.
5) Butch __________ (sniff) the plate and ____________ (woof). He _____________ (tremble)with anticipation.
6) I __________ (buy) a diamond ring for my future wife yesterday.
7) I ___________________ (wait) for half an hour when she finally ________________ (arrive).
8) The car _____________ (service) before it was _____________ (sell).
9) Condensed milk ________________ (produce) in America since the mid 1850s.
10) She __________________ (already, leave) when I ______________ (come).
11) I __________________ (talk) on the phone when she _______________ (run) into the room.
12) I _______________ (be) at work yesterday.
13) Her hair _____________ (be) wet, she ____________________ (swim).
14) I _____________ (eat) frogs when I _______________ (be) in France.
15) He ___________________ (repair) the car during the whole week before he _____________ (decide) to ask me to help him.
16) I ________________ (do) homework at 5 o'clock yesterday.
17) While I _____________ (write) a letter, my father was looking through the newspaper.
18) The Jurassic period ______________ (last) about 62 million years.
19) I _______________ (not, know) who he ________________ (be). I ________________ (see) him before.
20) He ______________ (write) the letter, ________________ (put) it in the envelope, ______________ (leave) it on the table and ______________ (go) out.
21) The house _____________ (be) dirty. They _______________ (clean it for weeks.
22) He _______________ (know) that she ________________ (work) in this company for five years.

Answer 1

1) buy
2)finished, striking
3)taken
4)wake,blared
5)sniffed, woof
6)buy
7)waiting
8)service, selling
9)produced
10)already
11)talking
12)be
13)be,swim
14)eat,be
15)repaired, decided
16)do
17)writing
18)last
19)know, be,see
20)writing, put,leavened, go.
21)be,clean it for weeks
22 know,worked