II. Open the brackets using the Past Simple, the Past Continuous, the Past the Past Perfect Continuous Tense
1. Nick (to practise) the Italian for 2 years (ta enter) the university
in Rome,
2. My friend after (to volunteer) wher he was a student
3. A terrible earthquake (to leave) a lot of people home ess in 2010,
4. By the time they got tu the station, the train a ready (to learn)
5. group males (to wark) heir project for weeks before they (to dacide) to present it
6. Teu (to learn) the new words the whole evening yesterday. Thousands of teus (to burn) in last summer's forest fires,
8. The treasure hunters (to examine, the area for some days they (to go) hunting,
9. The students (to plant, bushes and trees in the yard from 2 till o'clock yesterday. 10. Sam (to find) a lot of information about this insect and (to decide) to take
part in the scientific conference,
11. Pete said that he (to min) the first prize in the English contest.
1. Her name was Logan. She had been a widow for fifteen years and had no children.
2. He wanted to find out how long the two men had been staying with them.
3. We talked about what we had been doing since we left school.
4. The last member of the party was Neville, the film star, whom David had known for some time.
5. Basil said that he had been writing all day and hadn't eaten anything.
6. She said she hadn't seen him since he was in his first year at the university.
7. It was cold and dark in the small room because it had been raining for five days.
8. He said he had had the statuette for a long time. The noise woke Joe who had been sleeping in his pram by the garage door.