Ex135. Put each verb in brackets into suitable past tense

Once.

Ex.133 Complete the sentences with the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs in the list. Each verb is used only

to lose to win to write to eat to play to discuss to be to know to see to get to wait to rain to live to swim to hear to sleep

1. We … for Nancy for the last two hours, but she hasn’t arrived yet.

2. The students asked the famous writer how long he … books.

3. Everything in our garden was dying because we … rain for more than five months.

4. Bob was very excited. His favourite team finally … a game.

5. We went to Disneyland when we visited Los Angeles. Prior to that time we never … such a big amusement park.

6. How much money the company … before they finally went out of business?

7. He told me he … from her since the day she walked out of their office.

8. Anne’s lack of accent was explained by the fact that she … for twenty years in London.

9. She could see from the wet look of their costumes that they just….

10. When he came back we tried to pretend that we … him.

11. How many years … Jesus before he was crucified?

12. I sat in the kitchen smoking. Flora, who … the piano in the sitting-room, came to see what I was doing.

13. The noise woke Joe who… in his pram by the garage door.

14. It was cold and dark in the small room because it … for five days.

15. The last member of the party was Neville, the film star, whom David … for some time.

16. She realized that she was faint for food. She …nothing since the picnic.

Ex.134 Using by the time that and already, combine the following pairs of sentences. Be sure to change verb tenses when necessary.

Example: Women fought to get the vote for years. The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. - Women had already been fighting to get the vote for years by the time that the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.

1. Serious economic problems affected world trade for several years. The stock market crashed in 1929.

2. Farmers struggled to maintain their farms for several years. The drought of 1935-36 began.

3. Blacks and other minorities tried for years to receive equality under the law. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1957.

4. Martin Luther King worked for civil rights for more than a decade. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

5. The Soviet Union experimented with spacecraft for several years. The United States began its space program.

6. Young Americans explored ways of working and helping abroad. John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961.

CONTEXT

This time last year I (to cycle) ………………….. in the rain along a country road in France with a friend of mine. We (to decide) …………………. to go on a cycling holiday in Normandy. Neither of us (to be) ………………….. to France before, but we (to know) ……………….. some French from our time of school and we (to manage) ………………….. to brush up on the basics. Now we (to wonder) ………………….. if we (to make) ………………….. the right decision. We (to plan) ……………………. our route carefully in advance, but we (to forget) ……………………. one important thing, the weather. It (to rain) ………………….. solidly since our arrival and that night we (to end up) ………………………. sleeping in the waiting room at a railway station. Then the next morning as we (to ride) …………………… down a steep hill my bike (to skid) ………………….. on the wet road and I (to fall off)……………….. I (to realize) ………………….. immediately that I (to break) ………………….. my arm, and after a visit to the local hospital I (to catch) ……………………… the next train to Calais for the ferry home. Unfortunately my parents (not to expect) …………………... me home for a fortnight, and (to go) ……………………….. away on holiday. So I (to spend) …………………. a miserable couple of weeks alone, reading “Teach Yourself French”.

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