F. Формы прошедшего времени. Перепишите, заполнив пропуски предложенными в скобках глаголами в форме Past Simple или Past Perfect.
1. When I ............. (telephone) my father last week, I .............(not/speak) to him for five years.
2. Eleanor ...............(go) to university for four years before she ...................(start) work at IBM.
3. All of the dinosaurs .............................. (die) millions of years ago.
4. I ......(got) home at five o'clock yesterday as usual and I ..... (find) that someone ....... (break into) my flat and .......................(steal) my video-recorder.
5. I .............................. (leave) school and ........... (join) the army many years ago.
6. By the time he was twenty, Mozart..........(write) several of his most popular pieces of music.
7. Before Marti .......(become) Mrs Stephens' personal assistant she ......(work) as a receptionist.
8. After Sarah ............(know) Alan for a few months he .........(ask) her to have dinner with him.
Answers & Comments
2. had gone, started
3. died
4. got, found, had broken into, had stolen
5. left, joined
6. had written
7. became, had worked
8. had known, asked