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Past Perfect Vs Simple PastSet 6

1Past Simple or Past Perfect? My friend (to be) in the hospital because he (slip) on a banana skin.

2We left the town 7 years ago because my parents ..... (FIND) better jobs.

3He says he ..... his friend whom he ..... for many years.

4After I ..... the grass, it ..... to rain.

5Choose the correct variant of Past Simple and Present Perfect tenses.I ..... a new house last year, but I ..... my old house yet, so at the moment I have two houses.

6By the time I ..... at the bus stop, the bus ..... already.

7Mr Joe ..... to the prison after he ..... a lot of money

8Use the tense ..... to describe an action that happened before another action and both of these actions happened in the past.

9Select past simple or past perfect simple for the sentence below."We were driving along the road when we ..... (see) a car which ..... (break) down, so we ..... (stop) to help."

10Jamie ..... (send) a message to her friends before she ..... (meet) them at the theathre.

11She had cooked when I .....

12My sister Molly ..... in London before she ..... to New Zealand

13Paul and Gina ..... (arrive) an hour ago. They ..... (have) problems with their flight.

14She already (post) ..... the letter when she (realize) ..... she (send) ..... it to the wrong address.

15The government ..... the shelter before the second flood ..... the whole village.

16Nobody ..... (come) to the meeting because Angela ..... (forget) to tell people about it.

17Before I ..... home, I ..... some shoppping.

18We learned that he ..... the office 5 minutes before he ......

19Yesterday at a restaurant, I ..... Sally, an old friend of mine. I had not seen her for years. At first, I ..... her because she ..... at least 20 pounds

20Choose the earlier (first) event or situation.Before she left the company, Hiroko had been chairing many office committees.

21Our teacher ..... (give) us extra homework because we ..... (not finish) our essays

22I ..... breakfast when he .....

23When my friends ..... (arrive) to the bus stop, the bus ..... (leave).

24Decide which of the following verbs in parentheses should be put in simple past and which should be in past perfect.Obviously, she ..... (sit) alone by the stove all the time that Daisy ..... (be) away.

25If they really ..... to emigrate, they ..... to another country by now.

26John had been studying in France for a year when he (was meeting, met, will meet) Marie.

27The ..... is a verb tense that is used to talk about actions that were completed before another past action.

28We use Past Perfect to show .....

29They ..... before John ..... back home.

30Use the Past Perfect or the Past Simple: We ..... (go) to the grocery store before we made dinner.

31Past PerfectWhy did we use the Past Perfect in this sentence? She was tired because she hadn't slept well.

32I ..... (to finish) my presentation by the time boss arrived.

33The past perfect tense expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past.

34When Alice arrived home, her fahter ..... So, she couldn't talk to him since he wasn't there.

35The preparation for the graduation ceremony ..... by the time the students .....

36Which tense of the verb indicates that an action was completed at some point in the past before something else happened?

37Darcey (see) ..... this castle before she (come) ..... again last Sunday.

38Which is a signal word for the past perfect tense?

39Change using Past Perfect and Past Simple:First she practiced the dance. Then she made the TikTok video.

40We had already argued twice by the time we ..... to the airport.

41Bill ..... the house before I .....

42We ..... away the flowers that we .....

43True or False:The past perfect tense can be used to describe future actions.

44What action happened first in the following sentence:-When I got home I realized I had lost my keys.

45If they ..... the settings, the app wouldn't crash.

46I ..... him to do the task after I ..... my work.

47After we had played football, we ..... a shower

48He was not in the office. He ..... (just/ go) out when I ..... (arrive).

49They ..... TV before they ..... to bed.

50Before he ..... her, he ..... her nothing.

51By the time he ..... at the party, all his classmates ..... already.

52I was going to write my essay about the British nuclear tests in the Australian Desert, but I ..... the topic when I ..... much information about them.

53The train (left) ..... when I (arrive) ..... at the station.

54I ..... (dance) a lot when the party ..... (end)

55I ..... MY FRENCH UNTIL I ..... THAT CONFERENCE

56Chris ..... that car for five years before he ..... it.

57The lights ..... out because we ..... the electricity bill.

58We invited some friends over but they couldn't come because they ..... already ..... other plans.

59By the time I had found the key, I hadn't got into the house.

60If you ..... my advice, you wouldn't have made that mistake.

61What happens first in this sentence: I had already eaten when she arrived.