Use the right forms of the verbs in Past Continuous, Past Simple or Past Perfect to complete the sentences. |12 | |
1. Mrs Phelps (water) her plants and (stand) looking through the window.
2. Thomas (say) he (hardly, learn) the poem.
3. Hardly (it, stop) raining when a rainbow (appear) in the sky.
4. We (meet) at the Pushkin museum yesterday afternoon where we both
(visit) the exhibition.
5. Hardly (Jean, leave) the airport when she (realize) her passport
(miss).
6. They (build) a lot of factories in this part of the town by 1990.

1. Mrs Phelps was watering her plants and standing looking through the window.
Explanation: We use the Past Continuous tense (was/were + present participle) to describe an action that was happening in the past at a specific time. In this case, Mrs Phelps was in the process of watering her plants and at the same time, she was looking through the window.

2. Thomas said he had hardly learned the poem.
Explanation: We use the Past Perfect tense (had + past participle) to describe an action that happened before another action in the past. In this case, Thomas said that he had barely learned the poem, meaning he had learned the poem just before he said it.

3. Hardly had it stopped raining when a rainbow appeared in the sky.
Explanation: We use the Past Perfect tense (had + past participle) to describe an action that happened before another action in the past. In this case, the action of the rain stopping happened just before the rainbow appeared.

4. We met at the Pushkin museum yesterday afternoon where we both had visited the exhibition.
Explanation: We use the Past Perfect tense (had + past participle) to describe an action that happened before another action in the past. In this case, the action of visiting the exhibition happened before the meeting at the museum.

5. Hardly had Jean left the airport when she realized her passport was missing.
Explanation: We use the Past Perfect tense (had + past participle) to describe an action that happened before another action in the past. In this case, Jean realized that her passport was missing just after leaving the airport.

6. They had built a lot of factories in this part of the town by 1990.
Explanation: We use the Past Perfect tense (had + past participle) to describe an action that happened before a specific time in the past. In this case, the action of building the factories was completed before the year 1990.