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
  haven't seen
  never seen
  
  
• 2. I ___ (go) to Japan last year.
  
  been
  gone
  went
  
  
• 3. She ___ (read) a book when you called.
  
  was reading
  reading
  readed
  
  
• 4. She ___ (get) a divorce before she got married again.
  
  gotten
  got
  get
  
  
• 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
  worn
  worked
  
  
• 8. I ___ (meet) him an hour ago.
  
  meeted
  met
  had meet
  
  
• 9a. The hare ___ (shoot) ahead...
  
  shoot
  shooted
  shot
  
  
• 9b. ....and ___ (run) for some time.
  
  run
  runned
  ran
  
  
• 10. They ___ (decide) to settle the argument with a race.
  
  decided
  deciding
  decider