Irregular Verb Tenses

Narrative tenses review:

• Irregular verbs.

• Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous.

• Past Simple and Past Continuous.

1. Write the past participle of the following irregular verbs:

2. Write Past Perfect verbs:

3. Write Past Perfect Continuous verbs: had been + (verb)ING

4. Past Simple or Past Perfect? Choose the right answer.

Multiple Choice

Nobody ______ (understand) how the cat ______ (get) into the car.

• understood

  got

• had understood

  got

• understood

  had got

Multiple Choice

Joe ____ (not play) in the game on Saturday because he____ (hurt) his leg.

• didn't play

  had hurt

• hadn't played

  hurt

• didn't played

  had hurt

Multiple Choice

When I ____ (look) in all my pockets for my keys, I ____ (start) to get very worried.

• looked

  had started

• had looked

  started

• had look

  started

Multiple Choice

Liz ______ (never travel) by train before she ____ (go) to Europe.

• did never travel

  had gone

• had never travel

  went

• had never travelled

  went

Multiple Choice

I ___ (arrive) at the shop at 5:30, but it _____ (already close).

• arrived

  had already close

• had arrived

  closed

• arrived

  had already closed

Multiple Choice

I ____ (not have) much money after I ______ (pay) all my bills last week.

• hadn't had

  paid

• didn't have

  had paid

• didn't had

  had paid

Multiple Choice

Bill ____ (not tell) anybody how he ____(get) into the house.

• didn't tell

  had got

• hadn't told

  got

• didn't tell

  had get

Multiple Choice

Emma ___ (go) to France last week. Before that, she ______ (never be) outside Ireland.

• went

  had never been

• had gone

  never went

• had gone

  did never go

Multiple Choice

When their mother _____ (get) home, the children _____(eat) all the sweets.

• got

  had ate

• got

  had eaten

• got

  had eated

Multiple Choice

Yesterday I ____ (meet) a man who ____ (be) at school with my grandmother.

• had met

  was

• met

  had be

• met

  had been

Multiple Choice

I ____ (find) a letter on my desk that I ____ (not open)

• found

  hadn't opened

• had found

  didn't opened

• had found

  didn't open

5. Complete the sentences with Past Simple and Past Perfect verbs.

WELL DONE!