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University Abdelmalek Essaadi

Faculty of letters
S1 Grammar Exercises
Pr Rouchdi, Pr, Bouhout, Pr El Azzouzi, Pr El Hadri
2020-2021

MIXED TENSES

1. Complete the sentences with the past perfect simple or continuous.


1. When we arrived, the film _______________________ (start).
2. She ______________________ (work) for that company for twenty years when she was made
redundant.
3. I felt ill because I ___________________ (drink) six cups of coffee.
4. I _______________________ (study) all day, so I was tired.
5. How long __________________________ (you, live) in London when your daughter was born?
6. When I arrived at the airport, I realized I ___________________ (forget) my passport.
7. I __________________________ (break) my ankle, so I couldn’t go skiing last year.
8. She _______________________ (study) English for three years when she took the exam.
9. I ______________________ (run), so I was hot and tired.

2. Put each verb in brackets into a suitable tense. All sentences refer to past time.
a) I only realised that someone (steal) ____________________ my wallet when I (feel)
_______________ their hand in my jacket pocket.
b) When I (phone) _____________________ Helen last night, she (wash) _________________ her
hair and she (not finish) _________________ when I finally (get to) ________________ her house.
c) Peter (offer) ___________________ me some more food, but I decided I (eat) _________________
enough.
d) Nobody (watch) _____________________, so the little boy (take) ________________ the packet
of sweets from the shelf and (put)____________________ it in his pocket.
e) I (not realise) ____________________ that I (leave) ____________________ my umbrella on the
bus until it (start) ________________to rain.
f) At school I (dislike) ___________________ the math teacher because he (always pick) ________
__________________ on me.
g) Wherever Marion (find) _________________ a job, there was someone who (know) ___________
that she (go) _____________________ to prison.
h) It was only much later I (find out) ________________ that during all the time I (write) __________
to my penfriend, my mother (open) ____________________ and reading the replies!
i) I (not understand) ______________________ what (go on) _________________. Several people
(shout) ___________________ at me, and one (wave) __________________ a newspaper in front of
my face.
j) I (know)__________________ I (do) _______________ well in my exams even before I (receive)
__________________ the official results.

3. Put each verb in brackets into a suitable past tense.


This time last year I (cycle) ____________________ in the rain along a country road in France with a
friend of mine. We (decide) ______________ to go on a cycling holiday in Normandy. Neither of us
(go) _______________ to France before, but we (know) _____________ some French from our time
at school and we (manage) ________________ to brush up on the basics. Now we (wonder)
_________________ if we (make) _________________ the right decision. We (plan) _____________
our route carefully in advance, but we (forget) ________________ one important thing, the weather.
It (rain) __________________ solidly since our arrival and that night we (end up) ________________
sleeping in the waiting r oom at a railway station. Then the next morning as we (ride) ____________
down a steep hill my bike (skid) _____________ on the wet road and I (fall off) _________________.
University Abdelmalek Essaadi
Faculty of letters
S1 Grammar Exercises
Pr Rouchdi, Pr, Bouhout, Pr El Azzouzi, Pr El Hadri
2020-2021
I (realise) _________________ immediately that I (break) ___________________ my arm, and after a
visit to the local hospital I (catch) ______________ the next train to Calais for the ferry home.
Unfortunately my parents (not expect) _____________________ me home for a fortnight, and (go)
_________________ away on holiday. So I (spend) ________________ a miserable couple of weeks
alone, reading Teach Yourself French.

4. Put each verb in brackets into the most appropriate perfect or past tense.
a) I'm sorry I (not come) ______________________ to class lately. I (work) _____________________
late in the evenings for the past fortnight.
b) So far we (not notice) ________________________ anything unusual, but we (not pay) _________
very close attention.
c) I wonder if Mary (reach) __________________ home yet? She (leave)_________________ too late
to catch the bus.
d) Here is the news. The Home Office (announce) _________________ that the two prisoners who
(escape) ______________________ from Dartmoor prison earlier this morning (give themselves up)
_________________________________ to local police.
e) (you make up) __________________ your minds? What (you decide) _________________ to do?
f) Harry (leave) ___________________ home rather suddenly and we (not hear) ________________
from him since.
g) Recent research (show)_____________________ that Columbus (not discover) _______________
America, but that Vikings (land)______________________ there five hundred years before him.
h) I think that people (become)___________________ tired of the poor quality of television
programmes, though they (improve) ____________________ lately.
i) (something happen) __________________________to the lines? I (try) _____________________
to get through to Glasgow for the past hour.
j) Bill (get) ________________ that new job, but he (complain) _____________________about it
eversince.

5. Put each verb in brackets into either the past simple, present perfect simple or present
perfect continuous.
Ever since the day I (decide) __________________to move to London, I (worry) _________________
whether the decision I (take) _______________ was the right one. As I (already sell)______________
my house and (arrange) __________________ a new job, it is too late to change my mind. However,
since then I (hear) __________________ a lot of negative things about living in the capital, and lately
some of them (begin) __________________ to bother me. I (grow up) ____________ in a fairly small
town and I (spend) _________________ all of my life there. I (always want) __________________ to
live in a big city and so when my company (offer) _______________ me a job in their London office, I
(grab) ________________ at the chance. But according to a programme I (just hear) _____________
on the radio, more and more people (stop) __________________ working in London recently, and a
lot of large companies (choose) __________________ to move away from the center. Of course I
(tell) __________________ my parents that I'm moving and they (accept) ________________ my
decision, but when I (tell) _______________ my friends they (seem) ________________ rather
shocked. Since then I (hope)___________________ secretly that my company would tell me that the
move was off!

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