Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form.
1. We …………………. the railway station before the train came.
Correct!
Wrong!
2. His parents do not ..................... . with him.
Correct!
Wrong!
3. I .....................… working at this company for 25 years by next Christmas.
Correct!
Wrong!
4. Peter ..................... 87 runs before rain interrupted the match.
Correct!
Wrong!
Scored is also possible here, but had scored is 'more correct'.
5. I .....................… him twice before he left for New York.
Correct!
Wrong!
6. When I visited her she ..................... bed-ridden for six months.
Correct!
Wrong!
7. I ..................... . school last year.
Correct!
Wrong!
8. There .....................… a famine in Bengal in 1982.
Correct!
Wrong!
9. John has ..................... . home.
Correct!
Wrong!
Answers
1. We had reached the railway station before the train came.
2. His parents do not live with him.
3. I will have been working at this company for 25 years by next Christmas.
4. Peter had scored 87 runs before rain interrupted the match.
5. I had seen him twice before he left for New York.
6. When I visited her she had been bed-ridden for six months.
7. I left school last year.
8. There was a famine in Bengal in 1982.
9. John has gone home.
