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Category: English tenses

Past Simple or past perfect?

Read the questions below and decide which answer best fits each space.

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Question 1

There ... no people there. Everybody ...

Question 2

I ... sure that somebody ... there before us.

Question 3

We ... as we ... hungry.

Question 4

I ... him yesterday. He ... from France.

Question 5

I ... so nervous, because I ... that before.

Question 6

He ... in 1984, but his illness ... a few years before.

Question 7

It was my first flight. I ... before.

Question 8

When I ... , I noticed that nothing ...

Question 9

I was so excited when I ... her. We ... to each other for many years.

Question 10

When I ..., she ...

Question 11

I was sure we ... before.

Question 12

When I ... a child, I ... in the country.

Question 13

He ... to play, bacause he ... his leg.

Question 14

I ... who he was. I ... him before.

Question 15

I remember I ... her here for the first time.