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8 A were spending
B have spent
C spent
9 A didn't ever visit
B have never been to
C was never in
10 A has Greg come
B has Greg came
C did Greg come
11 A did
B has
C has come
12 A met
B have met
C was meeting
13 A was looking
B has looked
C looked
Use past tenses, present perfect or past perfect tenses to complete these sentences.
1. We ............................... in Bristol from January to March. (stay)
2. When you .......................... , ...................... you ............................................. fast? (crash, drive)
3. I'm sorry. Dad isn't here. He ..................................... our neighbour's flat since the morning. (decorate)
4. At 6 o'clock he ......................................... there for three hours! (sit)
5. I want to learn French. But I ............................... yet. (not start)
6. We didn't want to spend our holiday in Strobl, because .............. already ................. there. (be)
7. What ................ you ....................................... ? You are so dirty! (do)
8. Bill admitted that he .......................................... the catalogue to the agency. (not send)
9. As soon as I ................................. the message, I ..................................... my house. (get, leave)
10. While Maggie ............................ a new jumper, Jill and I ........................................ . (knit, read)
11. Here he is! He ............................. for me all the time, he ..................... for Ann! (not look, wait)
12. ...................... you in your room at 5.30? - Yes, I think I ........................ my suitcase. (be, pack)
13. Nice to meet you! I ............................... you for 10 years. What ............... you ........................... all this
time? (not see, do)
14. After we ........................................ to the top of the hill we had a great view of the bay. (climb)
15. The pigeon finally delivered the news after it ..................................... for the whole day. (fly)
A) Underline the correct tense.
1. As the stranger came/was coming to the station, a car stopped/was stopping behind him.
2. My grandma never watched/was never watching TV. But she read/was reading books.
3. When did you start/were you starting work?
4. I started/was starting at 6 o'clock.
5. He got up/was getting up and switched off/was switching off the light.
6. When I finished/was finishing my homework,
7. I cooked/was cooking dinner.
8. While we listened/were listening to the news, the telephone rang/was ringing. Kate stood up/was
standing up and answered/was answering it.
9. As I drove/was driving to work last Friday, a car crashed/was crashing in front of me. What did you
do/were you doing when you saw/were seeing it? I stepped/was stepping on the brakes.
10. Yesterday Carrol wrote/was writing letters from 10 to 11 and then from 5 to 7 again.
11. We arrived in Cannes at 2.30. The sun shone/was shining, people sunbathed/were sunbathing on the
beach and big yachts sailed/were sailing near the harbour. We parked our car and went/were going to
the beach.
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We stayed/were staying
Someone has drunk
When you crashed, were you driving
He has been decorating
he had been sitting
But I haven't started
we had already been
What have you been doing
hadn't sent
Answers
1 1 s always downloading 2 m working 3 s playing 4 comes 5 m getting 6 take
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