0% found this document useful (0 votes)
292 views4 pages

Using "Ago" and "Before" in Sentences

The document provides example sentences to be completed using the words 'ago' or 'before' whichever is appropriate. It gives 20 sentences with blanks to be filled in with one of the two words. The sentences provide examples of using the words to indicate times in the past relative to the present or another past event.

Uploaded by

shambhujee
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
0% found this document useful (0 votes)
292 views4 pages

Using "Ago" and "Before" in Sentences

The document provides example sentences to be completed using the words 'ago' or 'before' whichever is appropriate. It gives 20 sentences with blanks to be filled in with one of the two words. The sentences provide examples of using the words to indicate times in the past relative to the present or another past event.

Uploaded by

shambhujee
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Complete the following sentences using ago or before whichever is appropriate.

1. James phoned five minutes ……………………

2. ‘Have you ever been here ………………………?’ ‘Yes I was here a year ……………………..’

3. Peter’s father died two years …………………..

4. He was ill for two years ………………………. he died.

5. I met that man in Vienna three years …………………………

6. They would die ……………………….. they give in.

7. I realized that I had met her ……………………….

8. We have been living here since eight years …………………………


9. The train went out ten minutes ………………………..

10. I have seen that film ………………………


After / Before / Ago / Since / For"
1. Vacuum the carpets your mother comes home.

2. Ella left Poland in 2006 and hasn't returned .

3. - When did you arrive in Poland? - I arrived here three years .

4. Tatiana testified in court that she had never seen the man .

5. Elizabeth went to work in Israel 6 years , and I haven't seen her since.

6. Our roof should be repaired winter arrives.

7. The water and electricity have been cut off in our tenement house early this

morning.

8. About six years my grandfather went to Paris to study law.

9. I left the cinema the boring film ended.

10. My grandmother used to cook and my grandfather washed up dinner.

11. graduating from high school, I would like to attend the Jagiellonian

University.

12. My uncle Ed, now eighty years old, jogs twenty minutes every day.

13. I had already eaten dinner my family arrived.

14. Let me introduce you to Roger and Sally. I've known them my childhood.

15. The man fell into the hands of the police, ten years committing murder.

16. My grandparents have lived in that village just after the war.

17. I've been practising yoga the greater part of my life.

18. He returned home drunk as a lord two hours .

19. The man died three hours being in a car accident.

20. Henry has been teaching in this school 11 months now.


2. . It happened a long time …………………………………..

3. 2. Julie phoned ten minutes …………………………………………

4. 3. We have been living in this city since about ten years ………………………………………..

5. 4. I met Stella in Australia three years ………………………………………

6. 5. When we got talking, I remembered that I had been at school with her 15 years …………………………………

7. 6. I have seen this film …………………………………….

8. 7. Have you been here ……………………………………..?

9. 1. I have seen that error ____.

10. 2. Maria began typing that letter ten minutes ____.

11. 3. Can you believe people didn't have computers 20 years ____.

12. 4. Have you thought about that ____.

13. 5. I just thought about it a few minutes ____.


Submit
14.

15. U

You might also like