Mixed Past Tenses

The Romans _______ (come) to Britain in 54 BC.

• came

• had come

• comed

• were coming

We were strolling in the park when suddenly it _________ (to thunder).

• had thundered

• thunders

• was thundering

• thundered

I was watching TV while the kids __________ (play) in the garden.

• were playing

• played

• was playing

• had played

I was writing a letter while my husband _____________ (to cook).

• had cooked

• cooked

• was cooking

• cooks

I ____________ (play) the guitar at 9 o'clock yesterday.

• played

• was playing

• had played

• were playing

Albert Einstein _____________ (publish) a paper on the general theory of relativity in 1916.

• was publishing

• had published

• published

• publishes

Carol was eating a banana while Sandy ___________ (do) his home task.

• had done

• was doing

• did

• done

Ernest Hemingway ___________ (win) the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954

• won

• had won

• winned

• was winning

I ______________(drive) home at 7 p.m. yesterday.

• was driving

• drove

• had driven

• had been driving

Bob ___________ (listen) to music when the door bell rang.

• had listened

• had been listening

• listened

• was listening