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Grammar Exercises - Past Perfect

The document provides a grammar exercise with 20 sentences using the past simple tense and present perfect tense. The sentences are incomplete and must be filled in with the correct form of verbs provided in parentheses. It also provides a short story in paragraph form that must be completed using the past simple or present perfect tenses. The summary focuses on describing the main aspects of the grammar exercise and story completion task.

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Grammar Exercises - Past Perfect

The document provides a grammar exercise with 20 sentences using the past simple tense and present perfect tense. The sentences are incomplete and must be filled in with the correct form of verbs provided in parentheses. It also provides a short story in paragraph form that must be completed using the past simple or present perfect tenses. The summary focuses on describing the main aspects of the grammar exercise and story completion task.

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Grammar Exercises

Past Simple / Present Perfect / Past Perfect

a) My mother ___________ (tell) me that my boyfriend Andrew ____________


(have) an accident and _________ (be) at the hospital.
b) When we ____________ (arrive) at my house and I _________ (open) the
door, other friends __________ (be) already inside. They __________________
(prepare) a surprise party.
c) This is the best film I __________________ (see) since last year.
d) When we ___________ (get) to the station, the train ________________
(already / leave) for London.
e) I ________________ (not / realise) it ________ (be) so late and thats why I
___________ (call) you.
f) Humanity ____________________ (destroy) the planet for centuries.
g) This afternoon my cousin ___________ (fall) off his bike because the road
___________________ (cut) and he _______________ ( not / know).
h) They ____________________ (never / taste) crab before they ______________
(go) to Hong Kong.
i) By the time I _____________ (get) there, the room _____________ (be) empty
and everyone ________________ (leave).
j) I _____________ (know) Sally ________________ (be) poor, but she
_________________ (become) richer during the last few years.
k) Helen _________________ (bring) a letter for you yesterday.
l) The painter Matisse _________________ (live) outside France for several
years.
m) I _______________ (feel) exhausted because I ____________________ (sleep)
the night before.
n) They ________________ (invite) the President to open the new hospital for
children.
o) The car ______________ (break) down this morning; I
___________________________ (completely / forget) to take it to the
mechanic last month.
p) The French Revolution _________________ (happen) in 1789.
q) There ______________ (be) lots of food in the house because I
_________________ (shop) that week.
r) We ___________________ (just / get) back from holiday; I _____________ (be)
so sad.
s) Paul Auster _______________ (write) some interesting books until now.
t) I ________________ (decide) to study Tourism at the university next year.

Complete the following text using the Past Simple or the Pas
Perfect:

A few years ago a woman _______________ (tell) the newspapers that she
_________________ (have) a vision of a fatal crash in which a train _______________
(be) involved. Two years later, a train ____________ (be) involved in a fatal crash,
in the same circumstances that she ___________________ (describe). An
observant, however, ___________________ (notice) earlier that the train colour
__________________ (change). But, in fact, someone _________________ (discover)
later that the Rail Company _____________________ (paint) the train a couple of
months before. So the vision ______________ (be) correct after all!

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