Task 2: Past Perfect Simple and Continuos

Mr. Bean's Video:

• He had been driving his car
• The street had closed
• The cop had seen the car
• The men had beeen delivering some mattresses
• The car had gotten on the truck

Write the past participle of the following irregular verbs.

1. speak - spoken
2. catch - caught
3. eat - eaten
4. understand - understood
5. begin - begun

Complete the sentences in past perfect simple (affirmative form.)

1. I lost the key that he (give) had given / 'd given to me.
2. He told me that he (see) had seen / 'd seen the film.
3. I went outside as I (hear) had heard / 'd heard a noise.
4. When they came home, Liza (cook) had cooked / 'd cooked dinner.
5. We could not send you a postcard because we (lose) had lost / 'd lost our address book.

Complete the sentences in past perfect simple (negative).

1. The waiter served something that we (not / order) had not ordered / hadn't ordered.
2. He went to the country which he (not / visit) had not visited / hadn't visited before.
3. She picked out the red dress, which she (not / wear) had not worn / hadn't worn for ages.
4. He (not / swim) had not swum / hadn't swum in the beach before that day.
5. His mother was angry because he (not / do) had not done / hadn't done the shopping for her.

Complete the questions in past perfect simple.

1. (you / finish) had you finished your homework before you went to the cinema? (Check punctuation)
2. Why (you / not /clean) had not you cleaned / hadn't you cleaned the bathroom before you took a bath?
3. (you / have) had you had the breakfast before you left the house? (Check punctuation)
4. (she / manage) had she managed to find a place to stay when she went to London?(Check punctuation)
5. Where (she / stay) had she staied before she moved to live with her friend?

Complete the questions in past perfect simple.

1. (you / finish) Had you finished your homework before you went to the cinema?
2. Why (you / not /clean) had not you cleaned / hadn't you cleaned the bathroom before you took a bath?
3. (you / have) Had you had breakfast before you left the house?
4. (she / manage) Had she managed to find a place to stay when she went to London?
5. Where (she / stay) had she staied before she moved to live with her friend?

Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect or the simple past)

1. The storm (destroy) destroyed the house that they had built.
2. The children (clean) cleaned the blackboard they had used to do the mathematics exercise.
3. When she went out to play, she (do / already) had already done / 'd already done her homework.
4. She (eat) ate all of the food that we had made.
5. He took off the jakect he (put on) had put on / 'd put on before.

Put the verbs between brackets in the correct tense (past perfect simple or continuous.)

1. I (try) had been trying to get tickets for that play for months before my friend finally got them.
2. When I arrived at the theater, my friend (pick, already) had already picked up the tickets.
3. He was really angry because he (wait) had been waiting / 'd been waiting for more than half an hour when I arrived.
4. When the play started, I (already, apologize) had already apologized / 'd already apologized to my friend.
5. We (watch)) had been watching / 'd been watching the play when the lights went off.

Your score is: 86.5%