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Exercise 1 - Past and Perfect Tenses
Choose the correct
past
and
perfect
forms.
1. When my brother was a child, he always said that he
-CHOOSE-
would have
have
is going to have
will have
a large family someday.
2. By the time we got to the party, almost everyone
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would leave.
had left.
has left.
left.
3. How long
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have Tony and Carol known
do Tony and Carol know
did Tony and Carol known
had Tony and Carol known
each other before they got engaged?
4. The Murphys
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were spending
have been spending
had spend
had spending
their winters in Florida for years.
5. By the time Jodie Foster won an Academy Award, she
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acted
has been acting
was acting
had been acting
in films for many years.
6. We
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had been realizing
had never realized
have never realized
were never realizing
bowling was so much fun until we joined a team.
7. He cut himself when the glass he was washing
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had broken
was breaking
broke
has broken
in his hand.
8. We ran into traffic on our way to pick up Aunt Sally. By the time we got to the airport, her flight
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arrived.
has arrived.
had arrived.
would arrive.
9. You didn't hear anything the teacher said in class today, did you? What
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do you daydream
had you daydreamed
were you daydreaming
have you daydreamed
about?
10.
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Did
Had
Have
Were
you been waiting long when the train finally arrived?
11. They
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lived
're living
've lived
live
here for over a year, and they still don't know their neighbors.
SCORE
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Exercise 1 - Past and Perfect Tenses
