Past Tenses — Exercise 3 | English Grammar Exercises

Choose Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, or Past Perfect Continuous to fill in the gaps.

1.
At ten o’clock yesterday, Kevin
breakfast.
was having
2.
Emily put on her coat, closed the door and
the building.
left
3.
We were tired because we
tennis for two hours.
had been playing
4.
The party
by the time my neighbors arrived.
had already started
5.
Lily
as it was time to say goodbye.
was crying
6.
They
the problem since the morning before they came to the solution.
had been discussing
7.
I took a shower after I
my training.
had finished
8.
Harry and James
their first trophy yesterday.
won
9.
Amelia was watching some videos while her brother
on the phone.
was talking
10.
They
the dishes by the time their mother came home.
had washed
11.
Chris
the violin for a year before he entered the competition.
had been practicing
12.
We
the lesson yesterday.
didn’t attend

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