The past perfect simple and continuous
Practice:
A. Put the verbs in brackets into
the simple past or the past perfect simple:
a. After
Fred (spend)……..his holiday in Italy, he (want)……..to learn Italian.
b. Jill
(phone)…….Albert at work before her (leave)…….for a trip.
c. Susan
(turn)……..on the radio after her (wash)……the dishes.
d. When she
(arrive)…….the match (already/ start)……………………
e. After
the man (come)………home, he (feed)………….the cat.
f. Before
he (sing)……a song, he (play)……..the guitar.
g. She
(watch)……… a video after the children (go)……..to bed.
h. After
Zahra (make)…….break fast, she (phone)………her friend.
i. The
storm (destroy)……..sand castle that we (build)……………..
j. My
brother (eat)……..all the cake that our mum (make)………………….
k. The
doctor (take) ………off the plaster that he (put)…….six weeks before.
l. I could
not remember the poem we (learn)………the week before.
m. The
waiter (bring)…….a drink that I (not/ order)…………….
n. He
(phone)…….Fatima before he (go)……..to see her in London.
B. Put the verbs between brackets
in the correct form: simple past, past perfect simple or continuous:
a. They
(wait)…….at the station for 2 hours when the train finally (arrive)………...
b. I
(be)…….. Very tired because I (study)………too much.
c. We (look
for)…….. Her ring for 3 hours and then we (find)…….it in the bathroom.
d. How long
(she/ learn)…….English before she (go)………to London.
e. I (not/
work)……..all day, so I was not tired and went to the club at night.
f. He
(drive)…… less than an hour when ran out of the petrol.
g. Before
Jim finally (decide)……to go to Morocco, he (think)…….about it for months.
h. They
(eat)……….all the chocolate by the time Samira (get)………to the party.
i. When the
doctor (tell)……….him his liver was seriously bad, he (eat)……hamburgers for a month.
