EXERCISES. The Past Perfect Tense vs

The Past Perfect Tense vs. the Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Прошедшее завершенное и Прошедшее совершенно-длительное время

Exercise 1.

Open the brackets using the correct form of the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous.

I left without him last night, but I told him to meet me early because the film started at 8:00. I 1. ____ (try) to get tickets for that movie for months, and I didn’t want to miss it. By the time I finally left the coffee house where we were supposed to meet, I 2. ____ (drink) three cups of coffee and I 3. ____ (wait) over an hour. I had to leave because I 4. ____ (arrange) to meet John in front of the cinema. When I arrived at the cinema, John 5. ____ (take, already) the tickets and he was waiting for me. He was very upset because he 6. ____ (wait) for more than half an hour. He said he 7. ____ (give, almost) up and 8. ____ (go) into the cinema without me. John told me I 9. ____ (be) late so many times and that he would not go out with me anymore. He added that he 10. ____ (miss) the best part of the movie because of my late arrival.

Exercise 2.

Complete using the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs in the box. You may need to use a negative form.

eat	wait	write	listen	have
stay	know	see	get	run

1.	By the time he died, Shakespeare ____ a lot of dramas.
2.	We chose this hotel because we ____ there before.
3.	We ____ for over an hour when she finally returned.
4.	I was completely out of breath because I ____.
5.	I ____ the film before, so I knew how It ended.
6.	When they met, I ____ Tom for about two years.
7.	David ____ ready for the race for six months and finally the big moment came.
8.	Laura ____ computer lessons for very long so she wasn’t sure how to use the Internet.
9.	Liz ____ oysters before, so she wasn't sure what to do with them.
10.	I ____ to the song for a few minutes when my computer broke.

Exercise 3.

Correct the mistakes.

1.	When the student revolution came, I have been working there for 6 months.
2.	Before Jim finally decided to go to Thailand, he was thinking about it for months.
3.	They had been eating all the chocolate cake by the time Michael got to the party.
4.	I had meet Scarlett Johansson on three previous occasions. Lucky me!
5.	The forensic evidence shows that he had been picked his nose just before he was murdered.
6.	When the doctor told him his liver was seriously bad, he had been eating hamburgers since a month.
7.	Prior to the explosion, the fat man had ate seven large chocolate cakes.
8.	When they cancelled the flight to Alicante, the storm has been raging all afternoon with no sign of abating.
9.	He had thinking about finding a new job for about a year before he finally got round to it.
10.	It was obvious from her outrageous behaviour that she have been drinking.

Exercise 4.

In pairs act out a dialogue. At the university you met your old friend from a nursery school. Ask him what he had been doing and had done before he entered the university. Use the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous in your questions and answers.

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