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Past Tenses — Exercise 2

Choose Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, or Past Perfect Continuous to fill in the gaps.
  1. 1.
    When mother got home, the boys
    computer games for three hours already.
  2. 2.
    At six o’clock yesterday, Lauren
    a shower.
  3. 3.
    Lily
    for her exam while her brother was watching a movie.
  4. 4.
    By the time Nick arrived, Rafael
    .
  5. 5.
    Mike
    for about twenty years before he quit.
  6. 6.
    I
    you last night but you didn’t answer the phone.
  7. 7.
    Mary was waiting for a bus when the robber
    her.
  8. 8.
    We were tired because we
    without stopping for ten hours.
  9. 9.
    Susan
    her report by the time I came home.
  10. 10.
    While I
    , my friends were discussing what to do next.
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