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Past Simple Exercises: Positive, Negative, Questions

The document provides a mixed exercise with 20 questions in the past simple tense to be completed in either positive, negative or interrogative form. The questions cover a range of common verbs and contexts including work experience, travel, hobbies, daily activities, locations and past experiences. Learners are asked to supply the correct past tense form of the given verbs to complete each sentence.

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Past Simple Exercises: Positive, Negative, Questions

The document provides a mixed exercise with 20 questions in the past simple tense to be completed in either positive, negative or interrogative form. The questions cover a range of common verbs and contexts including work experience, travel, hobbies, daily activities, locations and past experiences. Learners are asked to supply the correct past tense form of the given verbs to complete each sentence.

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  • Past Simple Exercise: Provides exercises to practice the past simple tense in positive, negative, or question formats.
  • English Articles Exercise: Offers exercises for inserting 'a', 'an', or 'the' into blanks, aimed at improving article usage.

Past Simple - Mixed Exercise 1

Make the past simple - positive, negative or question


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1) I   (work) in a bank for ten years.. Show Answ er

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2) Where   (you/live) when you were young?. Show Answ er

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3) She   (not/study) French at university.. Show Answ er

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4) He   (travel) through the middle east last year.. Show Answ er

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5)   (they/visit) the Louvre in Paris?. Show Answ er

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6) She   (not/watch) TV yesterday.. Show Answ er

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7) We   (buy) a new car last weekend.. Show Answ er

8) Where   (you/teach) before you came here?.

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9) He   (not/think) that he was right.. Show Answ er

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10) I   (cook) steak last night.. Show Answ er

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11)   (Lucy/read) 'War and Peace' at school?. Show Answ er

12) She   (not/write) to her grandmother.. Check


Show Answ er

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13) We   (have) a computer when I was a child.. Show Answ er

14) Where   (you/go) on holiday?.


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15) I   (love) ice cream when I was a child.. Show Answ er

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16) They   (not/meet) yesterday.. Show Answ er

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17)   (she/swim) in the sea in Greece?. Show Answ er

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18) We   (not/play) tennis yesterday because it was raining.. Show Answ er

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19) He   (try) to lift the box but he couldn't... Show Answ er

20) What   (you/eat) for lunch?.

English Articles – Insert a, an, the or nothing into the blanks.


Beginner
1. My mother is ___ English teacher. I am ___ student. When I get home from school, I watch ___
programs on TV. That's ___ best part of my day. ___ programs I watch are for ___ children. I am
___ child, so I think they are funny.

2. I'm ___ little excited because it's ___ Friday today. There are ___ lot of good shows on TV today.
___ one I usually watch at 3:30 is about ___ animals. Also, I'm excited because my mom is
making ___ rice for dinner tonight.

3. Later, after eating dinner and doing my homework, I go to my room and read ___ book for 30
minutes. Then I turn off ___ light and go to ___ bed.

Answers:
1: an, a, --, the, the, --, a
2: a, --, a, The, --, --
3: a, the, --

Past Simple - Mixed Exercise 1 Make the past simple - positive, negative or question 1) I   (work) in a bank for ten years..
13) We   (have) a computer when I was a child.. 14) Where   (you/go) on holiday?. 15) I   (love) ice cream when I was a child
minutes. Then I turn off ___ light and go to ___ bed. Answers: 1: an, a, --, the, the, --, a 2: a, --, a, The, --, -- 3: a,

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