Gap Filling Tenses Exercise

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1. He has been absent since Monday.
2. Suddenly I realized that we had met before.
3. I finished / had finished my homework before I went out to play.
4. She said that she had posted the letter.
5. The train had left before we reached the station.
6. He lost the watch shortly after he had bought it.
7. When I reached his house, I found that he had already gone.
8. He started shouting before I had said a word.
9. She has been working as a nurse for well over three decades.
10. He has been working at the gate for a long time.
11. It takes 40 minutes by train.
12. I cannot let go of him.