EXERCISE 2 Choose the best word or phrase to complete in the following questions.
1. You
out last night or were you tired?
B. Had-gone
C. Did-go
A. Did - went
2. This time yesterday I
A. played
3. Nicole,
4. Mary.
A. watched - was
C. was watching - was
A. came
5. The doorbell
7.
C. had rung-took
6. When I was young, I
A. wanted
A. was ringing-took
The war
10. He
A. was breaking
8. When he was young, he
A. had been serving
C. have served
11. Yesterday she
A. will offer
12. There
A. had been
B. was playing
A. have been drinking
C. had drunk
13. It's time we
A. will do
14. Mr Brown
A. lived
15. I and my mom.
A. read
17. People,
A. are planting
C. were planting
B. had come
18. She
A. Was-doing
C. Do - do
television a lot when she
B. had wanted
home when she met Dave.
9. She often goes to school by bike but yesterday she
A. travelled
B. have been travelling
while I
B. had broken
tennis with my classmates.
C. had played
B. were
B. was offering
out three years ago.
C. broke
B. had watched - had been
D. had been watching - was
B. had done
B. was living
B. had been reading
16. At 10.pm last night, my younger brother,
A. had been playing
C. will be playing
D. Had been going
B. rang-was taking
D. had been ringing-took
to be a pilot.
C. would want
C. had been coming D. was coming
a shower.
in the army.
D. would play
B. serves
D. served
C. had travelled
a cup of coffee every morning many years ago.
B. drank
D. was drinking
to pay me for my helping her but I didn't accept.
C. had offered
D. offered
D. wants
D. have been breaking
a lot of grasses in the garden last summer.
C. have been
something to help him.
C. did
in Paris when the Second World
sick last year.
C. had lived
comic at this time last night.
C. have read
B. was playing
D. have been playing
by bus.
B. Had been doing
D. Will be doing
D. travels
D. will be
D. was doing
War broke out.
D. will live
D. were reading
games online.
all trees along the streets at this time two years ago.
B. will have been planting
D. will be plantin
her homework at this time yesterday morning?