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