The Past Tense

"In April 1912, the ship set sail on its maiden voyage." Which tense is used in the sentence?

• Past simple

• Present perfect

• Past continuous

• Past Perfect

"It was making good progress across the Atlantic." Which tense is used in the sentence?

• Past simple

• Present perfect

• Past continuous

• Past perfect

I was waiting in the car. Which tense is used in the sentence?

• past continuous

• past simple

• past perfect

"The ship had sunk." Which tense is used in the sentence?

• Past simple passive

• Present perfect

• Past perfect

• Past continuous

I saw my friend shopping. Which tense is used in the sentence?

• past continuous

• past simple

• past perfect

Someone had clearly been here. Which tense is used in the sentence?

• past simple

• past continuous

• past perfect

Identify the error in this sentence.

PAST PERFECT --> "It's clear that 700 passengers had survive."

• It

• clear

• passengers

• survive

Identify the error in this sentence.

PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE --> "My messages was sent to the owner of the company."

• was

• sent

• the owner

• the company

Identify the error in this sentence.

PAST CONTINUOUS --> "The lifeboats were tried to survive the freezing temperatures."

• were

• tried

• freezing

• temperatures

Identify the error in this sentence.

PAST SIMPLE --> "It sunk nearly for kilometres to the bottom of the ocean."

• sunk

• for

• to

• ocean