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Past Perfect Affirmative Negative InterrogativeSet 23

1..... the water ..... when you went to the kitchen?
2They didn't want to watch the movie again because they ..... it before.
3Michelle ..... downtown yesterday.
4By the time we got there, they ..... (already/finish) dinner.
5Identify the tense: 'She had finished her project before the deadline.'
6He spoke good English because he ..... in the USA since 1980.
7Before I moved here, I ..... in Collingswood.
8Select the correct form of the verb in the past perfect tense:By the time she arrived, we ..... already left.
9The teacher said he ..... finished checking the papers.
10She ..... her homework before the power cut occurred.
11I had stayed in Delhi for two years.
12No sooner ..... the speech finished than the audience began to clap.
13Imagine the Internet ..... Wouldn't that be weird?
14Clara looked out the window. The pavement was wet. It ..... at night.
15By the time the concert started, the band ..... (arrive) at the venue.
16Choose the correct answer: They ..... here for three years before they moved.
17By the time I got home, my mother ..... dinner.
18The robbers ..... the scene before the police arrived
19It was the first time I saw him. We ..... before.
20Identify the past perfect tense in the following options.
21Some of the jury ..... the law before they worked in the court.
22By the time the fire brigade arrived, the fire ..... the whole building.
23Complete the sentence using the past perfect tense: By the time we got to the theater, the movie .....
24The government announced that taxes ..... since 2000. A. would be raised B. had been raised C. were raised D. will be raised
25After Jack ..... his poem, he decided not to show it to anybody.
26She had painted beautiful pictures in the gallery.
27The robber ..... with the loot when the police arrived.
28After my piano ....., I continued to play it.
29Identify the tense of the perfect verb in the following sentences!After we had ridden through half the park, we stopped to enjoy lunch.
30I didn't notice that you ......
31The show ..... by the time we arrived.
32If she ..... me, she ..... known.
33He said he ..... her before.
34The kids ..... before I arrived.
35Harry couldn't dance at my party because a week earlier he ..... his leg
36Lucy and Peter ..... finished eating dinner.
37He ..... never ..... to Paris before that trip.
38When I ..... to the airport, I realized that I ..... my passport at home.
39I ..... the report before my boss asked for it.
40I ..... to the coast before the pandemic hit
41When do we use the past perfect tense in English?
42If only he ..... told us the truth in the first place, things wouldn't have gone so wrong.
43He said that he ..... that film.
44They became homeless because the hurricane ..... their house.
45The girl was crying as she ..... her way.
46By the time I arrived at the station, the train .....
47He ..... on that invention for three years before he finally succeeded.
48When I got to the store, they ..... (close) for the day.
49"She realized she had made a critical error in her calculations." What does this structure reveal about the discovery?
50How do we translate the pluperfect
51Identify the verb tense: The British had applied steam power to trains by 1825.
52A decade ago Neil ..... his wife. They ..... each other till that meeting.
53I ..... (finish) my work before my boss asked for it.
54If I ..... my phone, we could have called Helena.
55I ..... at home before my mother came.
56Henry said that the film ..... finished by the time he got home.
57The thief simply walked in. Someone ..... to lock the door.
58The board of directors ..... the proposal before making a final decision.
59Use the perfect tense correctly: 'They (have/had) gone to the store before it closed.'
60I ..... fallen asleep even before the football match started.
61Margaret did not remember what I ..... her the day before.