{"id":72425,"date":"2019-09-30T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T08:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72425"},"modified":"2019-09-30T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T08:28:39","slug":"ago-vs-before-english-grammar-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/ago-vs-before-english-grammar-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ago vs. Before | English Grammar Worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ago<\/strong> is used with a past tense and a time expression to count back from a moment in the present; <strong>before<\/strong> is used with a past perfect tense to count back from a past moment.<\/p>\n<p>Complete the following sentences using ago or before whichever is appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>1. James phoned five minutes \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>2. \u2018Have you ever been here \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026?\u2019 \u2018Yes I was here a year \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u2019<\/p>\n<p>3. Peter\u2019s father died two years \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>4. He was ill for two years \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. he died.<\/p>\n<p>5. I met that man in Vienna three years \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>6. They would die \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. they give in.<\/p>\n<p>7. I realized that I had met her \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>8. We have been living here since eight years \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>9. The train went out ten minutes \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>10. I have seen that film \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<p>1. James phoned five minutes <strong>ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. \u2018Have you ever been here <strong>before<\/strong>?\u2019 \u2018Yes I was here a year <strong>ago.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. Peter\u2019s father died two years <strong>ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4. He was ill for two years <strong>before<\/strong> he died.<\/p>\n<p>5. I met that man in Vienna three years <strong>ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6. They would die <strong>before<\/strong> they give in.<\/p>\n<p>7. I realized that I had met her <strong>before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8. We have been living here since eight years <strong>ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9. The train went out ten minutes<strong> ago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>10. I have seen that film <strong>before.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ago is used with a past tense and a time expression to count back from a moment in the present; before is used with a past perfect tense to count back from a past&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[1652,1225,272],"class_list":["post-72425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-7-worksheets","tag-ago-or-before-worksheet","tag-ago-vs-before","tag-prepositions-worksheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72426,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72425\/revisions\/72426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}