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Past Perfect Simple

1. The document provides exercises to practice using the past perfect simple tense in English, including filling in blanks with verbs in the correct past perfect form and identifying whether the simple past or past perfect should be used in passages. 2. The exercises include identifying the correct past perfect form of verbs in sentences, filling in blanks in a story with the simple past or past perfect, and writing a short paragraph about a travel problem using those tenses. 3. The purpose is to help practice forming and using the past perfect tense which is used to refer to actions that were completed before something else in the past.

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Past Perfect Simple

1. The document provides exercises to practice using the past perfect simple tense in English, including filling in blanks with verbs in the correct past perfect form and identifying whether the simple past or past perfect should be used in passages. 2. The exercises include identifying the correct past perfect form of verbs in sentences, filling in blanks in a story with the simple past or past perfect, and writing a short paragraph about a travel problem using those tenses. 3. The purpose is to help practice forming and using the past perfect tense which is used to refer to actions that were completed before something else in the past.

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ANNEX 6

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE


EXERCISES

I. Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple).
1. The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we _______________ (build)
2. He ______________ (not / be) to Cape Town before 1997.
3. When she went out to play, she _____________ (do / already) her homework.
4. My brother ate all of the cake that our mum _____________ (make)
5. The doctor took off the plaster that he ______________ (put on) six weeks before.
6. The waiter brought a drink that I ______________ (not / order).
7. I could not remember the poem we ____________ (learn) the week before.
8. The children collected the chestnuts that _______________ (fall) from the tree.
9. ___________________ (he / phone) Angie before he went to see her in London?
10. She ________________ (not / ride) a horse before that day.

II. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of Past Simple or Past Perfect Simple:
This happened about two years ago when I was working for a small family-owned business in
London.
It was a Friday afternoon and I was taking a tea break. I __________________(finish) a big
project and I was tired. The boss ________________ (go) out at lunchtime and __________(not/come)
back yet. But that _________ (be) quite normal as he usually took long lunches.
I ________________ (just / finish) my tea and was about to go back to work when a young man
____________(walk) into the office and ___________ (ask) for ‘dad.’ When I asked him who he meant
he ____________(say), ‘Arthur, the boss’. Then he said, ‘Oh, you’re new, aren’t you?’
That was true. I told him Arthur ____________ (go) and asked if I could help. He said he
____________(need) to pick something up from Arthur’s office and _________(go) in. He
______________ (leave) a few minutes later and asked me to tell his dad he___________(be) in and
would call him later.
When the boss came back I _____________________ (tell) him his son _________________
(be) in. He looked very surprised and _________ (say) he __________(not/get) a son.
He then looked in the office and ____________________ (find) that his briefcase and some cash
_________________(be) stolen.

III. Write a paragraph about a problem you had while travelling to the mountains or to the
seaside. Use the Simple Past or the Past Perfect. Start your paragraph as follows:
I had a problem on my trip to …….. . The train ride was terrible because I had forgotten my
money ….
Do not write more than 150 words.

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