{"id":794,"date":"2015-08-23T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2020-09-19T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T15:03:58","slug":"simple-past-and-past-perfect-tense-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/simple-past-and-past-perfect-tense-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple past and past perfect tense exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form. Watch our Youtube video<\/a> to learn the difference between simple past and present perfect. You can also find a Malayalam version of the same video here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. I ——————– the railway station before the train arrived.<\/p>\n

a) had reached
\nb) has reached
\nc) reached
\nd) was reached<\/p>\n

2. He ———————– with his uncle and aunt.<\/p>\n

a) live
\nb) lives
\nc) living
\nd) lived<\/p>\n

3. Peter ————————- working in this office for thirty years by next August.<\/p>\n

a) will be
\nb) will have been
\nc) is
\nd) would be<\/p>\n

4. Peter ——————— three wickets before rain interrupted the play.<\/p>\n

a) took
\nb) has taken
\nc) had taken
\nd) had took<\/p>\n

5. I ———————– him once before he went abroad.<\/p>\n

a) saw
\nb) have seen
\nc) had seen
\nd) seen<\/p>\n

6. When I saw him he ——————— bed-ridden for six months.<\/p>\n

a) was
\nb) has been
\nc) had been
\nd) were<\/p>\n

7. He ———————- school at fourteen.<\/p>\n

a) left
\nb) had left
\nc) leaved
\nd) was leaving<\/p>\n

8. There ——————— a famine in Bengal in 1982.<\/p>\n

a) was
\nb) had been
\nc) were
\nd) has been<\/p>\n

9. Akbar ————————– the Moghuls the paramount power in India.<\/p>\n

a) had made
\nb) has made
\nc) made
\nd) would make<\/p>\n

10. Susan has ———————- home.<\/p>\n

a) went
\nb) go
\nc) gone
\nd) going<\/p>\n

Answers<\/h3>\n

1. I had reached<\/strong> the railway station before the train arrived.<\/p>\n

2. He lives<\/strong> with his uncle and aunt.<\/p>\n

3. Peter will have been<\/strong> working in this office for thirty years by next August.<\/p>\n

4. Peter had taken<\/strong> three wickets before rain interrupted the play.<\/p>\n

5. I had seen<\/strong> him once before he went abroad.<\/p>\n

6. When I saw him he had been<\/strong> bed-ridden for six months.<\/p>\n

7. He left<\/strong> school at fourteen.<\/p>\n

8. There was<\/strong> a famine in Bengal in 1982.<\/p>\n

9. Akbar made<\/strong> the Moghuls the paramount power in India.<\/p>\n

10. Susan has gone<\/strong> home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form. Watch our Youtube video to learn the difference between simple past and present perfect. You can also find a Malayalam version of the same video...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbse-grammar-worksheets-2","tag-tenses-worksheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74799,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/74799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}