LEVEL 5- EMP UNIT 2A- Narrative tenses

1.     We _____ them in their car so we ________ to them.

• a.     saw / shouted  

• b.     seen / shout  

• c.     seeing / shouting

• d.     have seen / will shout  

2. They were _______ their music so loud that they couldn’t hear what I was ________

• a.     play / say

• b.     playing / say

• c.     playing / saying

• d.     play / saying

3.   I ______ that he was alone so I ______ to him and ______ him to the party.  

• a.     seeing / talk / take   

• b.     seeing / talked / taken

• c.     seen / talking / took

• d.     saw / talked / took

4.    He won the math competition because he _________ the hardest. (focus earlier action)   

• a.     working

• b.     had worked

• c.     work

• d.     worked

5.     He won the math completion because he ___________ the hardest. (focus on result)

• a.     working

• b.     had worked

• c.     work

• d.     worked

6.    He had a headache (result) because he ____________ all day (earlier action).

Focus on result

• a.     studying

• b.     had been studying

• c.     studied  

• d.     study  

7.     He __________ all day (earlier action) so he had a headache (result).

Focus on earlier action

• a.     studied  

• b.     studying  

   

• c.     study  

• d.     be study  

8.     She was strong because ______________?

• a.     She’d been running

   

• b.     She’d run

• c.     She run

• d.     She running  

9.     While I was ________ I ___________   

• a.     Running / Tripped  

• b.     Ran / Tripping   

• c.     Tripping / Ran  

• d.     Run / Tripped

10.     When I _______ to school everyone was _________ a film.

• a.     going / watch  

• b.     go / watch

• c.     got / watching

• d.     going / watching