Exercise on past tenses 2

Exercise on TENSES
Possible Tenses: PAST TENSE - PRESENT PERFECT (both SIMPLE or CONTINUOUS)

Fill in all the gaps with the verbs given in brackets, then press "Check" to check your answers. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for clues!


(1) yet? (? the postman , be)
(2) Last month I (be) in London for some days. On the first evening, I (meet) a
friend of mine who (ask) me at once, “How long ?“ (? you, be)
(3) When we , (arrive) they (sit) in the garden.
(4) Mr Lynche (have) four different cars up to now. The first one (be) a Ford; in 1969 he (buy) a Chevrolet. Then he (drive) a Buick for some years. He (have) his new Cadillac since October last year.
(5) Mr Gray (teach) at our school since 1973.
(6) Mrs Mason (never, be) in America, though her son (live) there since 1969. She (die) in 1972 without having seen him again.

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