Simple Past And Past Perfect Tense Exercise | NCERT Class X English Workbook Unit 2 Tenses Exercise D. 3 And D.4
This grammar worksheet is taken from NCERT Class X English Workbook Unit 2 Tenses Exercise D. 3 and D.4
Notes
When we talk about two finished events in the past, we use the past perfect for the earlier of the two actions and the simple past for the latter.
Complete the following sentences correctly by using the simple past and the past perfect forms of the given verbs.
1. We ……………………. already ……………….. (reach) home when Irfan …………………….. (say) that he ………………………… (forget) his books at school.
2. Wendy ……………………… (wake up) late, then she …………………… (miss) her school bus, so by the time she ……………………. (reach) school, it ………………. already ………………….. (start)
3. I ……………………. (visit) my town again 10 years after I ……………………. (leave) it and …………………. (find) that it ……………………… completely …………………….. (change)
4. When Feroze and Mehr ………………………. (meet) for the first time, they ………………………… (not like) each other but now they are married.
Answers
1. We had already reached home when Irfan said that he had forgotten his books at school.
2. Wendy woke up late, then she missed her school bus, so by the time she reached school, it had already started.
3. I visited my town again 10 years after I had left it and found that it had completely changed.
4. When Feroze and Mehr met for the first time, they did not like each other but now they are married.
Exercise D.4
Find the incorrect sentences and then rewrite them correctly. Put a tick mark against the sentences that you think are correct.
1. By 2005, the singer recorded ten albums. (wrong)
2. When I got to the bank, it had closed. (correct)
3. Timothy, the tiger, had killed five calves yesterday. (wrong)
4. When Rehman met Mini ten years later, she grew up into a young girl. (wrong)
5. By the time, we reached the airport, the flight had left. (right)
6. We hardly went a kilometer or so when the car broke down. (wrong)
Answers
1. By 2005, the singer had recorded ten albums.
3. Timothy, the tiger, killed five calves yesterday. (The past perfect tense is not used to simply say that something happened sometime ago. We use the simple past to express that idea.)
4. When Rehman met Mini ten years later, she had grown up into a young girl.
5. We had hardly gone a kilometer or so when the car broke down.
