Past Tense + relationship idioms revision C1

When I was thirteen, I ________ the words to all their songs (more than one answer possible)

• used to know

• would know

• knew

Answer explanation

'Would' cannot be used with a verb which is used statively

It's years since _______ a skateboard. I'm not sure if I could do it now. (more than one answer possible)

• I've ridden

• I haven't ridden

• I rode

I'd________ more before settling into a full-time job. (more than one answer possible)

• like to have travelled

• have liked to travel

• have liked to have travelled

I remember that concert. It was the first time ______ the band play live.

• I've seen

• I'd seen

• I was seeing

I'd rather my parents _______ me go to piano lessons when I was little

• didn't make

• wouldn't have made

• hadn't made

She was ____ in her mother's business, but decided instead to continue her studies (more than one answer possible)

• going to work

• thinking to work

• to have worked

Answer explanation

to have worked = thinking of/about working

_____ it once, he was happy yo give another presentation (more than one possible answer

• After he'd done

• Having done

• Being done

It hasn't rained once since ______ (more than one possible answer)

• I've been here

• I got here

• my arrival

While Messi _____ (RACE) across the pitch, the spectators were

cheering hysterically

• raced

• had been racing

• was racing

• would race

Answer explanation

2 ACTIONS IN PROGRESS SIMULTANEOUSLY (P PROGRESSIVE + P PROGRESSIVE)

'How long _____ (BE) together before you got married?' 'Ages - more than 5 years)