Form 8 (2015)Test on Past Tenses

Test on Past Tenses

1.       Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous

1.       The boys ________________________( walk) around the town for three hours and they were really tired.

2.       He _________________________( look) for his student`s book for half an hour, when he remembered he _________________________(leave) it at school.

3.       I __________________(do) my homework before my mother came home.

4.       By the time the students arrived at university, the lecture _______________(start).

5.       The climbers were happy because they _______________________(reach) the top of the mountains.

2.       Choose the correct tense.

1.       They travelled/were travelling to London last year.

2.       It rained while the children were hiking/hiked through the forest.

3.       He opened his rucksack and realised that he forgot/had forgotten to pack the compass.

4.       He was watching/watched a football match at 7 yesterday.

5.       He had missed/had been missing his bus so he was really late.