Duplicate of Duplicate of Past tenses [Advanced]

Question 1

I_____spend my holidays with grans and we _____ go fishing every day.

Accepted Answer

used to/would

Question 2

I used to play basketball with my friends yesterday.

Accepted Answer

Grammatically incorrect

Question 3

It ... difficult to communicate over long distances 100 years ago.

Accepted Answer

used to be

Question 4

My neighbour would never ______________ hello to me.

Accepted Answer

say

Question 5

While I ... my homework, my brother ... TV.

Accepted Answer

was doing / was watching

Question 6

Which tense is used when the result is gotten/seen.

Accepted Answer

Past Perfect

Question 7

We __________________ cook a turkey every Christmas.

Accepted Answer

would

Question 8

She ... smaller roles for several years before she was given the leading one.

Accepted Answer

had been playing

Question 9

When I was a little kid I ... in my grandma's house every weekend.

Accepted Answer

used to sleep

Question 10

I had served the table, looked after my nieces and painted the gates yesterday.

Accepted Answer

wrong

Question 11

What is meant by the phrase: 'William Wordsworth wrote many poems'.

Accepted Answer

William Wordsworth is dead, so he can't write any more poems

Question 12

We don't normally use would with stative verbs to talk about past habits.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Dad ... us a story every night before we went to bed.

Accepted Answer

would read

Question 14

I didn't used to ... up so early.

Accepted Answer

get

Question 15

Older generations didn't have smarthphones, but they .. the telephone and telegrams.

Accepted Answer

did have

Question 16

What is meant by the phrase: 'I had worked on my computer for four hours'....

Accepted Answer

I might have stopped working

Question 17

What is meant by the phrase? 'John had been working for that company for 10 years, when he met Alice'.

Accepted Answer

While working there he met her.

Question 18

What does the phrase 'I wish I had had a bigger house' express?

Accepted Answer

regret I didn't

Question 19

It was a lovely day and the sun ... bright.

Accepted Answer

was shining

Question 20

Bob ... the TV on and ... on the sofa.

Accepted Answer

turned / sat

Question 21

Santa used _________ me present when I was young.

Accepted Answer

to give

Question 22

My sister______________ into problems at school.

Accepted Answer

was always getting

Question 23

Which tense is used for a past action which provides a recent or instant evidence?

Accepted Answer

Past Perfect Continuous

Question 24

When I was a child, my brothers and I were normally _________________together.

Accepted Answer

playing

Question 25

By the time George turned 20, he ... playing the piano.

Accepted Answer

had mastered

Duplicate of Duplicate of Past tenses [Advanced]

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Duplicate of Duplicate of Past tenses [Advanced]

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