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Handout 21: Past perfect tense

EX 1: Supply the verbs in brackets in Past perfect tense.

1. Before hanging out with friends, Jim (do)________________ his homework.
2. Peter told me that he (already finish)________________ reading ‘Harry Porter’.
3. Mary said she (never be)________________ to Paris before.
4. When we came to the movie theater, the film (start)________________ .
5. Where ________________ (Jim / be) before you found him?
6. Peter (travel)________________ to 5 foreign countries on business trips before he retired.
7. My mother (write)________________ me a note before she left for work.
8. I wish I (not attend)________________ that meeting.
9. Jim (read)________________ all his books before he brought a new one yesterday.
10. ________________ (you / clean) your room before you went out?

EX 2: Supply the verbs in brackets in Past perfect tense and Past simple tense
1. Mr. Brown (come)_____________ home as soon as he (finish)________________ his
work.
2. I (live)____________ in Texas for 4 years before I (move)________________ to
California.
3. When Mr. Smith (wake)________________ yesterday morning, breakfast (already be)
________________ ready.
4. Before I (get)________________ promotion, I (work)________________ very hard.
5. Yesterday, my mother (pick)________________ me up from school before we (go)
________________ shopping together.
6. Our grandparents (tell)___________ us that he (serve)______________ in the army in
1945.
7. After having dinner with my boyfriend, I (go)________________ home.
8. Yesterday (be)________________ the first time Jane (perform)________________ in
front of such large audience.
9. Peter (admit)_____________ he (break)________________ my favorite vase the day
before.
10. What ________________ (you / do) before you (come)________________ there?
11. Yesterday I (feel)________________ nervous as I (not prepare)________________ my
presentation carefully.
12. ________________ (Peter / come) to see you after he (finish)________________ his
work?
13. Mary (prepare)________________ the meal before she (invite)________________ her
new neighbor to have lunch with her.
14. Before I (buy)_____________ a car, I (travel)________________ by bus for nearly 5
years.
15. As soon as Jane (see)_____________ Jim, she (storm)________________ out of the
room.

EX 3: Rewrite these sentences, using the given words.

1. Before / Peter / go / university /,/ he / take / gap / year.
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2. Where / you / be / before / you / come / home.
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3. There / be / many / trees / along / street / before / people / cut / them / down.
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4. Jim / be / very / upset / before / Mary / cheer / him / up.
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5. She / tell / me / yesterday / she / not / finish / her / assignment / yet.
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6. What / happen / after / Jim / propose / to / Jane?
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7. You / eat / dinner / before / you / come / here?
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8. Peter / travel / a lot / before / his leg / seriously / injure / in / accident.
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EX 4: Choose the correct forms of each verb to complete the sentences.

commute be (not) build suffer do

evacuate cooperate try mushroom want

1. In the past, people ________________ by tram before it was replaced by other modern
means of transport.
2. Our family ________________ from poverty before we received help from the local
people.
3. There ________________ only a slight increase in the amount of money we earned each
month after I changed my job.
4. The service industry in our region ________________ before the recession.
5. They ________________ any flyovers in our area before 2014.
6. Mary and Jane ________________ closely in the project before they hated each other.
7. What ________________ (people) to earn a living before they worked in that factory?
8. They ________________ several times before they gave up on their dream.
9. The local authorities _____________ people from the dangerous area before the flood
came.
10. I (always) ________________ to become a superman before I realized that superman
wasn’t real.