Past Tenses Quiz
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We had already eaten when John ________________________________ (come) home.
A. came
B. had come
When he left the house, Peter remembered that he ___ his passport in another jacket.
A. had left
B. left
C. was leaving
D. had been leaving
I was very tired when I arrived home. I _______________ hard alll day.
A. worked
B. had been working
C. had worked
D. was working
My dad ………………………… interested in buying a new car because he didn’t have enough money to afford one at that time.
A. was
B. wasn’t
C. is not
D. won’t be
We hadn’t __________her when her parents arrived
A. met
B. meet
C. meeting
D. meets
Hardly … the door when the phone rang.
A. had we closed
B. were we closing
C. closed we
D. had we been closing
we use it to describe an action that lasted for a short period of time.
A. Past simple
B. Present continuous
C. Past Continuous
While I _____(drive), I _____(have) an accident.
A. drived/had
B. was driving/ had
C. drove / was having
D. drove/ had
Last week I …. to the library.
A. went
B. had gone
C. was going
D. had been going
She _______ the guitar at 5 o’clock yesterday.
A. played
B. was playing
C. had played
D. had been playing
Identify the past continuous tense in the sentence: ‘I was reading a book when the phone rang.’
A. reading
B. readed
C. was reading
D. were reading
I _____ to the road and we crashed.
A. didn’t pay attention
B. wasn’t paying attention
C. hadn’t paid attention
I opened the fridge to find someone ________________________________ (eat) all my chocolate.
A. had eaten
B. ate
It ………….. all the night.
A. was raining
B. rained
C. rains
She …………. a book when the phone ………….
A. read/ rang
B. was reading/ rang
C. was reading/ was ringig
D. read/ was ringing
Which tense is used to describe an action in progress at a time in the past?
A. Past Simple
B. Past Continuous
C. Past Perfect
D. Past Perfect Continuous
I was watching TV while the kids … in the garden.
A. played
B. playing
C. were playing
What is the past simple form of the irregular verb ‘to go’?
A. went
B. wents
C. wented
D. goed
Before she had dinner, she ……………… in the garden.
A. had worked
B. worked
C. was working
D. has worked
Mr. Lewis __________ only salad at dinner yesterday evening because he went on a strict diet
A. was eating
B. wasn’t eating
C. were eating
D. weren’t eating
She ………… before I got there.
A. had called
B. called
Combine past continuous and past simple in a sentence.
A. She was calling while I watched TV.
B. I watched TV when she called.
C. I was watching TV when she called.
D. While watching TV, she called.
We _______ (have/has/had/having) a great time at the party yesterday.
A. have
B. has
C. had
D. having
I didn’t ……….football
A. playd
B. played
C. play
D. plaid
Did we ………….. her yesterday?
A. saw
B. see
C. was seeing
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