Exercise 2. Put the verb in brackets into the Past Indefinite and the Past Perfect. 1....

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Exercise 2. Put the verb in brackets into the Past Indefinite and the Past Perfect.

1. She realized that she was going to faint. She (eat) nothing since the picnic. 2. His wife (not / be) in. She (go) out a quarter of an hour before. 3. After dinner Mr. Grag proposed a game of cards. He (not / play) cards since his illness. 4. Dr. Lecter (be) English, though he (live) in America for thirty years. 5. His smile (be) something she never (see) before. 6. We hardly (leave) the town, when it (begin) to rain. 7. He (come) into the room a moment after I (get) there. 8. When he (return) at eleven o’clock the telegram (arrive). 9. When they (go) I (get) busy at the desk. 10. When evening (fall) their son (leave) the house. 11. I hardly (be) there five minutes when Mrs. Brown (come) in with the coffee. 12. The moon (not / rise). There was nothing to dispel the dark of the night. 13. Scarcely they (move) into the new house when their friends (come) in. 14. The evening (go) off easier than she (expect). 15. But the village he (show) her (be) the best he ever (see). 16. Just at that moment a boy and a girl (come) and (sit) down where the old couple (be) before. 17. I (keep) silence for a little while, thinking of what he (tell) me. 18. Soames (spend) the night at Winchester, a place he often (hear) of but never (see). 19. She (know) why he (come). 20. Within a week she (know) the fearful mistake she (make).

Answer 1

1 hadn't eaten. 2 wasn't. had gone. 3 hadn't played. 4 was, had lived. 5 was, had never seen, 6 had left,  began, 7. came had got, 8. returned, had arrived. 9 had gone, got, 10 had fallen, left, 11 had been, came, 12 hadn,t risen, 13 had moved, came. 14 went, had expected, 15 showed, was, had seen, 16 came, sat, had been. 17kept, had told, 18 spent, had heard, had never seen, 19 knew, had come, 20 new, had made.