Grammar - Simple Past, Past Continuous and Past Perfect Tenses

We __________ (play) football every day during the summer holidays.

• played

• were playing

• had played

• were played

Maher ____________ (watch) TV when his mother ________(call) him.

• was watching, called

• watched, was calling

• was watched, was called

• watched, called

Salim _______ (revise) for the test when his teacher ________ (ask) for help.

• revised, was asking

• was revising, was asking

• was revising, asked

• was revised, asked

Last night, I ______ (complete) my homework tasks and then _____ (go) to bed.

• was completing, was go

• was completed, gone

• completed, was going

• completed, went

I _____ (finish) my dinner before my friend _______ (come) home.

• had finished, came

• finished had come

• finished, came

• was finishing, came

Eman _______ (go) to Qatar last week. Before that, she _____ never ______ outside Oman. (be)

• went, had been

• was going, was been

• went, has been

• went, did been

When Maha ______ (do) her shopping, she ______ (go) for a walk with her friends.

• had done, went

• did, went

• was doing, went

• did, was going

I _______ (wash) my clothes when the telephone _______ (ring).

• was washing, rang

• washed, was ringing

• had washed, was ringing

• washed, rang

I _____ (be) late for my class yesterday because I _____ (miss) the bus.

• was, missed

• am, was missed

• was, was missed

• had been,

After an hour, my cousins _______ (come) home. I _____ already ______ (start) learning the piano.

• come, has already

• came, had started

• had come, have started

• came, am started