Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form.
1We ............... the railway station before the train came.
Wrong!
Use the past perfect "had reached" for an action completed before another past action.
2His parents do not ............... with him.
Wrong!
After "do not," use the base verb "live".
3I ............... working at this company for 25 years by next Christmas.
Wrong!
Use the future perfect continuous "will have been" for duration up to a future point.
4By the time rain interrupted the match, Peter ............... 87 runs.
Wrong!
Use the past perfect "had scored" for the runs completed before the interruption.
5I ............... him twice before he left for New York.
Wrong!
Use the past perfect "had seen" for an action completed before he left.
6When I visited her, she ............... bedridden for six months.
Wrong!
Use the past perfect "had been" for a state that started before the visit and continued up to it.
7I ............... school last year.
Wrong!
Use the simple past "left" with the finished past time expression "last year".
8There ............... a famine in Bengal in 1943.
Wrong!
Use the simple past "was" for a finished event in 1943.
9John has ............... home.
Wrong!
Use the past participle "gone" after "has" in the present perfect.
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- We had reached the railway station before the train came.
- His parents do not live with him.
- I will have been working at this company for 25 years by next Christmas.
- By the time rain interrupted the match, Peter had scored 87 runs.
- I had seen him twice before he left for New York.
- When I visited her, she had been bedridden for six months.
- I left school last year.
- There was a famine in Bengal in 1943.
- John has gone home.