Choose the correct form of the verbs. 1. Mary met her husband while she worked / was working / used to work in the States

1. Mary met her husband while she worked / was working / used to work in the States.

2. Why does Warren keep shouting at people? He wasn't / wasn't being / didn't use to be so bad-tempered.

3. How long is it since you had / were having / used to have a holiday?

4. The government provided / were providing / used to provide much more help for disabled people than they do now.

5. It's all very well complaining you haven't any money, but while you were travelling around the world, I studied / was studying / used to study sixteen hours a day for my exams.

6. The only time I ever rode / was riding / used to ride a horse, I fell / was falling / used to fall off in the first five minutes.

13. Choose the most appropriate time expression underlined.

a) Once /Afterwards I'd read the manual, I found I could use the computer quite well.

b) It was more than a month before/until I realised what had happened.

c) I managed to talk to Carol just as/while she was leaving.

d) It wasn't until/up to 1983 that Nigel could afford to take holidays abroad.

e) George always let me know by the time/whenever he was going to be late.

f) I was having a bath at the time/that time, so I didn't hear the doorbell.

g) We bought our tickets and five minutes after/later the train arrived.

h) According to Grandpa, people used to dress formally those days/in his day.

i) Everyone was talking but stopped at the time/the moment Mr Smith entered the room.

j) The letter still hadn't arrived by/until the end of the week.

14. Put each verb in brackets into a suitable past tense. Only use the Past Perfect where this is absolutely necessary.

Harry went back to the camp the following morning, but it was in some confusion. Soldiers (1) were wandering (wander) around carrying equipment from one place to another, but there (2).................... (not seem) to be any purpose to what they (3)................ (do). Harry (4).................... (never be) in an army camp before, but it (5)................... (not take) a genius to realise that most of the officers (6).................... (take) the first opportunity to abandon the men and head for safety. He (7).................... (try) to phone the newspaper, but something (8).................... (happen) to the telephone lines. He (9).................... (try) to find out what exactly (10).................... (go on), when the first plane (11).................... (fly) low over the camp. A wooden building a few hundred yards away suddenly (12).................... (disappear) in an explosion of flame. Before long bombs (13).................... (explode) all around him, and then everything (14)....................(go) quiet. The planes (15).................... (vanish) as suddenly as they

(16).................... (appear). Smoke (17).................... (rise) from burning buildings. A dead man (18).................... (lie) next to Harry, the first dead person he (19).................... (ever see). And suddenly it (20).................... (begin)to rain.

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