10 Challenging English Past Tenses Exercises and Answers

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#1. By the time we arrived, the movie ______.

#2. She ______ dinner when the phone rang.

#3. They ______ already ______ the project before the deadline.

#4. I didn’t recognize him because he ______ a lot.

#5. While I ______ down the street, I saw an old friend.

#6. He ______ for two hours before the meeting finally started.

#7. We ______ to Paris last summer.

#8. When I got home, my parents ______ already ______.

#9. She ______ TV when I called her.

#10. After they ______ lunch, they went for a walk.

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  1. b) had started
  2. b) was cooking
  3. b) had finished
  4. b) had changed
  5. b) was walking
  6. c) had been waiting
  7. a) went
  8. c) had slept
  9. b) was watching
  10. b) had had