Практикум по грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие

TAG QUESTIONS
I 
I
You 
you
He/She/It had (‘d) just left when Ann arrived, hadn’t he/she/it? – Yes,/(No,)…
had(n’t).
We 
we
You 
you
They
they
I 
I
You 
you
He/She/It had not (hadn’t) done it, had
he/she/it? – Yes,/(No,)… 
had(n’t).
We 
we
You 
you
They
they

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Exercise 9. Give the right tag to these sentences.
1. He had last seen her ten years before, ____________?
2. I hadn’t seen Jane for many years when she called to see me last week, 
____________?
3. Everybody had already left the office when she arrived, ____________?
4. When the police arrived, the car had gone, ____________?
5. She hadn’t spoken to the teacher before the lesson began, ____________?
6. All the garages had closed by the time we crossed the frontier, 
____________?
7. By 2016, we had waited seven months for them to accept our offer, 
____________?
8. He hadn’t finished work when the head manager returned, ____________?
9. When I found my purse, someone had taken the money out of it, 
____________?
10. The rain had already started when we left the beach, ____________?
Exercise 10. Complete the sentences using Past Perfect Simple or Past 
Simple of the verbs in brackets. When Daniel came (come) in, we all knew 
(know) where he had been (be).
1. I ____________ (be) sorry that I ____________ (be) rude to him.
2. While they were drinking coffee, she ____________ (begin) to tell him 
everything that____________ (hap pen) to her in the past three years.
3. Hardly anyone ____________ (come) to the party because Sue ____________ 
(forget) to send the invita tions.
4. We ____________ (lose) our way. We ___________(not/know) what to do.
5. The police ____________ (come) as quickly as they could, but when they 
____________ (arrive), the bur glars ____________ (already/go).
6. As soon as we ____________ (finish) work, we ____________ (go) home.
7. Yesterday at the party, Evelyn ____________ (see) Harold Coleman, an 
old friend of hers. She____________ (not/see) him in years. At first, she 
____________ (not/recognize) him because he (lose) at least twenty pounds.
8. — you ___________ (arrive) at the cinema in time for the film last night?
—No, we __________ (be) late. By the time we __________ (get) there, it 
__________ (already/begin).
9. I __________ (go) to Helen’s room and __________ (knock) on the door. 
There __________ (be) no answer. Either she _________ (go) out or she 
_________ (not/want) to see anyone.
10. Melanie ________ (ask) me how to use the photocopier. She _________ 
(never/use) it before, so she ________(not/know) what to do.
11. Tom couldn’t find the dictionary that I _________ (lend) him.

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12. All the people they ________ (invite) turned up, and some that they 
__________ (not/invite).
13. Marco _________ (feel) very nervous when he first drove in Britain be-
cause he _________
(not/drive) on the left before.
14. Andrew _________ (do) the test before, so he __________ (find) it very 
easy.
15. We ____________(leave) the restaurant when we ___________ (have) 
dinner.
16. They waited until everyone _________ (be) ready, and then they _________
(start) the meeting.