Verb Tense review: Exercises

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Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple present or present progressive)
Look! Sara (go)____________ to the movies.
On her right hand, Sara (carry) ____________ her handbag.
The handbag (be) ____________ very beautiful.
Sara usually (put) ____________ on black shoes but now she (wear) ____________
white trainers.
E. And look, she (take) ____________ an umbrella because it (rain) ____________
2) Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or past perfect)
A. When he (wake up) ____________
, his mother (already /prepare)
____________ breakfast
B. We (go) ____________
to London because our friends (invite) ____________
us
C. He (hear) ____________
the news, (go) ____________ to the telephone and
(call) ____________ a friend.
D. When she (start)
____________
learning English she (already /learn)
____________ French.
E. Jane (already / type) ____________ three pages when her computer (crash)
____________ .
F. By the time the doctor (arrive) ____________ at the house the patient ( die)
____________ .
G. Before that day we (never / think) ____________ of traveling to Japan.
H. I (know) ____________
him a long time before I (meet) ____________
his
family.
I. They (not / know) ____________
where to meet because nobody (tell)
____________ them.
J. It (be) ____________ cloudy for days before it (begin) ____________ to rain.
3) Put
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the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or present perfect).
I (just / finish) ____________ my homework.
Mary (already / write) ____________ five letters.
Tom (move) ____________ to his home town in 1994.
My friend (be) ____________ in Canada two years ago.
I (not / be) ____________ to Canada so far.
But I (already / travel) ____________ to London a couple of times.
Last week, Mary and Paul (go) ____________ to the cinema.
I can't take any pictures because I (not /buy) ____________ a new film yet.
(they / spend) ____________ their holidays in Paris last summer?
(you / ever / see ) ____________ a whale?

4) Put the verbs into the correct tense (Simple Past or Past Progressive).
A. The receptionist (welcome) ____________ the guests and (ask) ____________
them to fill in the form
B. The car (break) ____________ down and we (have) ____________ to walk
home.
C. The boys (swim) ____________ while the girls (sunbath) ____________ .
D. My father (come)
____________
in, (look) ____________
and (tell)
____________ me to tidy up my room.
E. While one group (prepare)
____________
dinner the others (collect)
____________ wood for the campfire.
F. While the parents (have) ____________
breakfast the children (run)
____________ about.

G. Martha (turn) ____________

off the light and (go) ____________ to bed.