EXERCISE 2 Choose the best word or phrase to complete in the following questions.
1. You,
out last night or were you tired?
C. Did-go
B. Had - gone
A. Did - went
2. This time yesterday I
A. played
3. Nicole,
A. watched - was
C. was watching - was
4. Mary.
A. came
5. The doorbell
7. The war
A. was ringing - took
C. had rung - took
6. When I was young, I
A. wanted
A. had been serving
C. have served
A. was breaking
8. When he was young, he
10. He
11. Yesterday she,
A. will offer
12. There
A. had been
A. have been drinking
C. had drunk
13. It's time we
A. will do
14. Mr Brown
A. lived
B. was playing
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.
while I
9. She often goes to school by bike but yesterday she
A. travelled
B. have been travelling
B. had broken
out three
B. were
tennis with my classmates.
C. had played
B. was offering
16. At 10.pm last night, my younger brother
A. had been playing
C. will be playing
B. had watched - had been
D. had been watching - was
B. rang - was taking
D. had been ringing - took
to be a pilot.
C. would want
D. Had - been going
C. had been coming D. was coming
a shower.
years ago.
C. broke
in the army.
D. would play
B. serves
D. served
sick last year.
C. had travelled
a cup of coffee every moming 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
B. had done
B. was living
C. had lived
comic at this time last night.
B. had been reading C. have read
D. travels
by bus.
D. was doing
in Paris when the Second World War broke out.
D. will live
D. will be
D. were reading
games online.
B. was playing
D. have been playing
all trees along the streets at this time two years ago.
B. will have been planting
D. will be planting
her homework at this time yesterday morning?
B. Had been doing
D. Will - be doing