Past Tense – Elementary

The past tense is a verb tense expressing activity, action state or being in the past. In English, there are two types of past tense:

The Past Simple, Past Progressive, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous are all past tenses.

The Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect are used to link events that started in the past to the present.

Use the correct past tense verb:

• 1. He ___ (not/ see) it yet.
  
  hasn't seen
  never seen
  haven't seen
  
  
• 2. I ___ (go) to Japan last year.
  
  went
  been
  gone
  
  
• 3. She ___ (read) a book when you called.
  
  was reading
  reading
  readed
  
  
• 4. She ___ (get) a divorce before she got married again.
  
  get
  got
  gotten
  
  
• 5. Once upon a time, there ___ (be) a hare and a tortoise.
  
  had
  was
  been
  
  
• 6. He went home after his boss ___ (leave) the office.
  
  leaved
  left
  lift
  
  
• 7. I ___ (work) really hard today.
  
  woke
  worked
  worn
  
  
• 8. I ___ (meet) him an hour ago.
  
  had meet
  met
  meeted
  
  
• 9a. The hare ___ (shoot) ahead...
  
  shot
  shooted
  shoot
  
  
• 9b. ....and ___ (run) for some time.
  
  run
  ran
  runned
  
  
• 10. They ___ (decide) to settle the argument with a race.
  
  decider
  deciding
  decided