Practice Test with past tenses
1. Put the verbs in the brackets in the past simple, past continous, past perfect or past perfect continuous.
1.He………….....................………( drive ) his car for more than 4 hours until his car …………….........................……(break) down.
2. It was a hot day and she…….................………….(be) tired as she ………............……………(run) for quite sometime.
3. When I …………….…( arrive ) , they ……………………………(already/ finish) all their work.
4. When we ………………( come) to the party, everyone……...………………….(enjoy) for more than an hour.
5. The garden was flooded because it………............…………………( rain) all night.
6. How long …………………....……..( you/wait) when the bus finally …………….(come) ?
7. Most of my friends………………..( be ) no longer there. They………………….( leave).
8. The woman you ………………….(meet) in the party ……………….(be) no longer here. She …………………(go) away before you……………………..(come).
9. When I………………..( get) home, I ……………….(find) that someone……………………(break) into my flat and ……………………( steal) my fur coat.
10. Goerge………………………(not/want) to come to the cinema with us because he …………………………….( already/see) the film twice and he…………………..(also/be) so tired as he ………………………….( work) the whole night before.
11. ……………………(Tom/be) there when you …………………….(arrive) ?
12. Ken……………………( realise) his bad health problem when he …………………( go) and ………………..( check) it in a hospital. The main reason ……………..(be) that he…………………………..(smoke) for more than 30 years when he finally…………………….(give) it up.
13. When the boys………………(come) into the house, their clothes……………….(be) dirty, their hair………………….(be) untidy and one ………………(have) a black eye. They…………………………................( fight).
14. I……………..( be) exhausted when I ………………..(reach) home. I…………............……………….(work) hard all day.
15. I ………………(invite) Anna to dinner last night but she…..........……………..(not/come). She……………………….(already/arrange) to do something else
