Past Tenses Test (Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Past P. Continuous

Past Simple/Past Continuous/Past Perfect/Past Perfect Continuous.

We ____ for a convenient place for a settlement for half a day before we found a shaded cove, where we put brushwood.

Two boys came home late. Both of them had black eyes, and their collars were torn, blood ____ from the scars. They ____. The moms ____.

We ____ Paul at the airport. He ____ for his sister and was nervous all the time, looking at watch and brushing off his jacket.

When he ___ single he ___ to Spain every winter, but now he has to go to France with his wife and children.

Hardly ___ the door when the phone ___. It ___ as unexpected as the broken hinge on the door profile.

He was put behind bars because he ___ the police officer.

First, he ___ the message. Then, he ___ his boss to inform him about the accident. The boss ___ around with this mishap all night.

We ____ for an hour when we suddenly realised that we ___ in the wrong direction.

Rearrange the words in the correct tense of verbs in brackets.

(Eat)/(join)/when/us/John/already/we

Yesterday I _____ (come) home from school at half past eight.

When I ____(come) home from school yesterday, my little brother ____(sit) on the floor with all his toys around him.

It was a feeling he ... (never; to feel) before.

Would you know what to do if you . . . a heart attack?

Water _____ at 100°C.

I must go on a diet. I _____ a lot of weight while I was on holiday.

The road was blocked so we had to _____ and find another route.