Open the brackets using an appropriate Present or Past Tense. 1. Where on earth...

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Open the brackets using an appropriate Present or Past Tense. 1. Where on earth ___________________________ (you/buy) those shoes? They are awful! 2. OK. Who _____________________ (take) my best pen? It ____________________ (be) on my desk thirty seconds ago. 3. Oh, dear, what ____________________ (happen) to you? You look as though you ____________________ (see) a ghost. 4. Who _______________________ (write) William Tell? I can never remember if it ___________________ (be) Mozart or Rossini. 5. Thomas ______________________ (be) late for every lesson so far. 6. Ella _________________________ (smoke) forty cigarettes a day for over thirty years. Then she _________________________ (give up) overnight and ___________________________ (not touch) one ever since. 7. Who _________________________ (you/think) you are, speaking to me like this? 8. Although I ____________________ (set off) early, I ____________________ (get) there late and everybody ______________________ (wait) for me to start the meeting. The chairman said they ________________________________ (wait) for a whole hour. 9. You ________________________________ (always/moan) about the state of the kitchen but you _________________________________ (never/help) me! 10. When we got back from our holiday, we discovered that someone __________________ (break) into our house. The burglars, however, _____________________ (drop) a piece of paper with an address on it as they _______________________ (climb) out of the window. 11. I _________________________ (have) a nightmare when the alarm clock ___________________________________ (go off and wake me up). 12. I _______________________________ (never use) my mobile phone if I__________________________________ (drive). 13. Luckily, by the time we _______________________ (get) there, they _____________________________ (not sell) the painting. 14. The last time I _____________________ (go) sailing with my friends, the boat ________________________ (sink) in a gale. Luckily, nobody ____________________ (invite) me again since then. 15. I ______________________________________ (really/enjoy) myself at the moment! 16. Jean. I’m so glad you _______________________ (get) here at last! I ___________________________________________ (expect) you all day! 17. It _________________________ (take) a long time for me to notice but then I _____________________ (do). Everyone ______________________ (stare) at me. What _________________________ (I/do) wrong? 18. Phil stood at the door soaked from head to toe; he _______________________ (run) in the rain. 19. Brendan was surprised to find the gas tank empty as he _______________________ (only use) the truck twice that week. 20. When I __________________ (arrive), he _____________________ (stay) at the same hotel where we first _________________ (meet). He __________________ (tell) me he ____________________ (wait) for some time then. 21. Watch carefully. First I _________________ (take) a bowl and ________________ (break) two eggs into it.

Answer 1

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