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Past Perfect Affirmative Negative InterrogativeSet 11

1By the end of yesterday, they ..... (meet) all the requirements for the project.
2After they ..... (eat) they cleared the table.
3We ate at a restaurant last night because Alba (buy / not) anything for dinner.
4I ..... (want) Mrs Thomas's young son to touch my ornaments because I ..... (just/clean) them.
5By the time I could talk to her, she ..... to quit her job.
6We ..... eaten dinner before the movie started.
7I ..... (eat) lunch before they arrived.
8Someone asks, 'Had you ever tried sushi before tonight?' What is the correct short answer if you had not?
9Members of an Australian family found the world's oldest message in a bottle over 100 years after German researchers ..... it into the Indian Ocean.
10Complete the sentence using the past perfect tense:After Jessica ..... her work, she began to read. (finish)
11The politician ..... to be re-elected, but in the end she got 10 per cent of the vote.
12He described the town as if he ..... it himself.
13Many of the people who attended Mr. David's funeral ..... him for many years.
14If they had bought the house when it ..... cheaper, they wouldn't be struggling with high mortgage payments now.
15Identify the verb tense of the following sentence: We had not heard this news till yesterday.
16I raised my hand once I had identified the answer.
17Alisia ..... been on the rooftop when her twin sister looked for her.
18Convert the following present perfect sentence to past perfect tense:I have seen that movie before.
19If she ..... the truth then, she wouldn't be so upset now.
20She explained that the meeting ..... by the time she arrived.
21I had finished my assignment. What perfect tense is this?
22Peter was Sally's best friend.She ..... (know) him all her life.
23"By the time the movie started, we ..... (buy) our popcorn and found our seats."
24What tense is used to express an action that happened before another action in the past?
25If we ..... a bigger discount, we could have saved thousands.
26I ..... to five countries by the time I was ten.
27The exam (already begin).-They (discover) that one page of the examination was missing.
28Julie and Anne ..... before the party.
29He was angry because his colleagues ..... him about the meeting.
30Sam ..... Italian before he moved to Rome.
31By the time we came to the bookshop all books .....
32Before we parked our car we ..... the ticket.
33Identify the past perfect tense verb phrase.I wrote my report on food history after I had gathered a lot of information from books and websites.
34Which tense is used in this sentence? "She had finished the report before the meeting started."
35What is the verb tense in the sentence: "As a child, Harry had lived in a cupboard."?
36She ..... the result before the announcement was made.
37As soon as they ..... (forgive) each other, they ..... (forget) their past mistakes.
38Before we attended the opening ceremony, we ..... to wear uniform.
39Before I boarded the bus, I realised that I ..... my wallet.
40When do we use Past Perfect?
41..... you ever dreamed of studying overseas?
42The new policy ..... by the board before it was announced to the public.
43READ AND IDENTIFY TO WHICH TENSE IT BELONGS:"YOU HAD AGREED"
44Exercise 2. The employees in the accounting division were delighted to find out that their co-worker SamWarner ..... to assistant manager.A. had promotedB. will have been promotedC. had been promotedD. promoted
45I stopped watching the game before the end, but I thought we .....
46It was the first time that he ..... me for lunch
47The party ..... by the time we arrived.
48He ..... shoes ..... before he comes
49Robert said that his father ..... to Dallas the year before.
50Choose the sentence that uses the past perfect tense:A) They went to the beach after they had finished their work. B) They go to the beach after they finish their work.
51Which term matches this description: express action or make a statement about something completed in the past BEFORE some other past action or event-had + past participle, ie. I had watched
52Lynne left the restaurant after she ..... eating.
53We ..... (already finished) our work before the clock struck six.
54Which is the correct conjugation of the verb 'to know' in the perfect past and second person [you]:
55He ..... when we arrived at 8.
56The teacher was disappointed because half the class ..... their homework.
57Marcy and Anne ..... (not/meet) before the party.
58She realised with horror that the dog ..... all the food for the barbecue!
59By the time he came home, we .....
60The witness claimed he ..... the accused before.
61We didn't need to queue because my friend ..... (buy) the tickets.