Grammar exercises including all past tenses - Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfet Simple, Past Simple Continuous and Present Perfect Tenses Fill in each blank by putting the verb in (brackets) into the correct past tense.
1. How many pints of beer ……………………………………(he/drink) before he ………………………………….(leave) the pub?
2. By the time I ……………………………………………..(leave) university I ……………………………….(be) to France fifteen times.
3. When we ……………………(get) home we saw that someone ………………………..(break) in to steal the DVD recorder.
4. He ………………………………..(send) to prison four times before he …………………………………..(decide) that it would be better to go straight.
5. I didn't realise I ……………………(lose) my credit cards until I ………………………..(try) to pay for dinner at the restaurant.
6. I ………………………………………(see) my first baseball game when I ……………………………………(live) in New York.
7. It ………………………………………………..(rain) so we ………………………………….(decide) to stay at home all afternoon.
8. I …………………………………(write) an email to my sister when she ………………………….(ring) me.