Past tenses Practice
Choose the right form of the verb in brackets:1) I ___________ (buy) this car in January.
2) I had ________________ (finish) high school when the Great Depression ______________ (strike) the country.
3) We ____________ (take) a walk in the park when a heavy thunderstorm suddenly ____________ (break) out.
4) When I finally ______________ (wake) up, the clock radio ______________ (blare) for a good couple of hours.
5) Butch __________ (sniff) the plate and ____________ (woof). He _____________ (tremble)with anticipation.
6) I __________ (buy) a diamond ring for my future wife yesterday.
7) I ___________________ (wait) for half an hour when she finally ________________ (arrive).
8) The car _____________ (service) before it was _____________ (sell).
9) Condensed milk ________________ (produce) in America since the mid 1850s.
10) She __________________ (already, leave) when I ______________ (come).
11) I __________________ (talk) on the phone when she _______________ (run) into the room.
12) I _______________ (be) at work yesterday.
13) Her hair _____________ (be) wet, she ____________________ (swim).
14) I _____________ (eat) frogs when I _______________ (be) in France.
15) He ___________________ (repair) the car during the whole week before he _____________ (decide) to ask me to help him.
16) I ________________ (do) homework at 5 o'clock yesterday.
17) While I _____________ (write) a letter, my father was looking through the newspaper.
18) The Jurassic period ______________ (last) about 62 million years.
19) I _______________ (not, know) who he ________________ (be). I ________________ (see) him before.
20) He ______________ (write) the letter, ________________ (put) it in the envelope, ______________ (leave) it on the table and ______________ (go) out.
21) The house _____________ (be) dirty. They _______________ (clean it for weeks.
22) He _______________ (know) that she ________________ (work) in this company for five years.