Past tenses Practice Choose the right form of the verb in brackets:1) I ___________ (buy) this car in January. 2) I had ________________ (finish) high school when the Great Depression ______________ (strike) the country. 3) We ____________ (take) a walk in the park when a heavy thunderstorm suddenly ____________ (break) out. 4) When I finally ______________ (wake) up, the clock radio ______________ (blare) for a good couple of hours. 5) Butch __________ (sniff) the plate and ____________ (woof). He _____________ (tremble)with anticipation. 6) I __________ (buy) a diamond ring for my future wife yesterday. 7) I ___________________ (wait) for half an hour when she finally ________________ (arrive). 8) The car _____________ (service) before it was _____________ (sell). 9) Condensed milk ________________ (produce) in America since the mid 1850s. 10) She __________________ (already, leave) when I ______________ (come). 11) I __________________ (talk) on the phone when she _______________ (run) into the room. 12) I _______________ (be) at work yesterday. 13) Her hair _____________ (be) wet, she ____________________ (swim). 14) I _____________ (eat) frogs when I _______________ (be) in France. 15) He ___________________ (repair) the car during the whole week before he _____________ (decide) to ask me to help him. 16) I ________________ (do) homework at 5 oclock yesterday. 17) While I _____________ (write) a letter, my father was looking through the newspaper. 18) The Jurassic period ______________ (last) about 62 million years. 19) I _______________ (not, know) who he ________________ (be). I ________________ (see) him before. 20) He ______________ (write) the letter, ________________ (put) it in the envelope, ______________ (leave) it on the table and ______________ (go) out. 21) The house _____________ (be) dirty. They _______________ (clean it for weeks. 22) He _______________ (know) that she ________________ (work) in this company for five years.

1 bought
2 finished,  struck
3 were taking;  broke
4 woke up;  had blared
5 sniffed;  woofed;   was trembling
6 bought
7 had been waiting;  arrived
8 had been serviced; was sold
9 has been producing
10 had already left; came
11 was talking; ran
12 was
13 was; had been swimming
14 ate; was
15 had been repaiting; decided
16 was doing
17 was writing
18 lasted
19 didnt know; hadnt seen
20 wrote; put; left; went out
21 was; hadnt cleaned
22 knew; had been working