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Past Perfect Tense Exercise

Write down the correct form of the verb given in the bracket to make a sentence into the  Past Perfect Tense .

• She _________ a novel on humanity. ( write )
• He ________ his homework yesterday. ( do )
• They _________ a bad man very badly on the road. ( beat )
• You ____ already _______the rules of our organization. ( read )
• She had ______ a beautiful dress at the party. ( wear )
• John __________ to the wedding ceremony. ( come )
• ____the snake _______ on his leg? ( bite )
• He __________ any cash amount to the dealer. (not/pay)
• They ____ already ______ a knife to the boy to cut fruits. ( give )
• We _________ any game from yesterday. ( not/play )
• The car _________ far away in the tornado. ( blow )
• She _________ her pup[py on the road. ( not/leave )
• The cloth ________ high on the sky. ( fly )
• ______ you _______ about that company before? ( hear )
• I ________ that file on your table yesterday. ( keep )
• She had written a novel on humanity. ( write )
• He had done his homework yesterday. ( do )
• They had beaten a bad man very badly on the road. ( beat )
• You had already read the rules of our organization. ( read )
• She had worn a beautiful dress at the party. ( wear )
• John had come to the wedding ceremony. ( come )
• had the snake- bitten on his leg? ( bite )
• He hadn’t paid any cash amount to the dealer. (not/pay)
• They had already given a knife to the boy to cut fruits. ( give )
• We hadn’t played any game from yesterday. ( not/play )
• The car had blown far away in the tornado. ( blow )
• She hadn’t left her pup[py on the road. ( not/leave )
• The cloth had flown high on the sky. ( fly )
• had you heard about that company before? ( hear )
• I had kept that file on your table yesterday. ( keep )

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He did his homework for two hours. / He spent two hours doing his homework.

• Thread starter IlyaTretyakov
• Start date Jan 7, 2023

IlyaTretyakov

• Jan 7, 2023

Greetings ☺️ Is it 100% wrong to say "Yesterday he did his homework for two hours" and it should be "Yesterday he spent two hours doing his homework"? The context is probably that I just want to tell my friend about my son or something like that.  

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pops91710 said: "Yesterday he spent two hours doing his homework", works fine for me. "Yesterday he did worked on his homework for two hours" is better than the original. Click to expand...

I’d hesitate to call the “did” version “100% incorrect” - it’s not impossible that someone might say it - but it sounds unnatural and unlikely to me. This is because we don’t expect duration to be mentioned with “He did his homework,” which implies he completed his homework. There’s nothing obvious in the grammar to indicate this, but when a parent for example says, “Do your homework”, it means, “Complete your homework.” In fact, the more I think about it, the presence of the possessive pronoun makes a difference: “Yesterday, I did my homework.” = Yesterday I completed my homework. “Yesterday, I did homework.” = I worked on homework, but I didn’t complete it. “Yesterday, I did homework for two hours then I went outside.” = This works for me, and implies the person worked on homework for two hours but didn’t finish it all. “Yesterday, I did my homework for two hours.” = Sounds wrong, because “completion of homework” can’t have duration in time.  

anthox said: In fact, the more I think about it, the presence of the possessive pronoun makes a difference: “Yesterday, I did my homework.” = Yesterday I completed my homework. “Yesterday, I did homework.” = I worked on homework, but I didn’t complete it. “Yesterday, I did homework for two hours then I went outside.” = This works for me, and implies the person worked on homework for two hours but didn’t finish it all. Click to expand...

pob14 said: I think that Yesterday I did my homework implies that "I" spent some of my time yesterday doing homework, but doesn't say whether it is finished or not. On the other hand, I did my homework yesterday probably implies that I finished it. That is, the first version answers "what did you do yesterday," and the second answers "did you do your homework yet?" Click to expand...

• He did his homework yesterday for two hours. (we don't know if he completed it)
• He did est his homework yesterday ( in two hours). (we know for sure he completed it)
• He was doing his homework for two hours yesterday.
• He was doing his homework from 4 to 6 p.m. yesterday.

IlyaTretyakov said: but he didn't do est Click to expand...

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Past Tense (irregular) Practice Sheet 1

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• He ________________ his homework before he went to school.
• It was cold so we ________________ some hot chocolate.
• I ________________ a sandcastle when I went to beach.
• It was a hot day so she ________________ in the lake yesterday.
• His car had a flat tire so he ________________ the bus to work.
• I ________________ a horse last summer when I went to my uncle's farm.
• I was late for class so I ________________ to school.
• I ________________ two hamburgers so I am full.
• I ________________ a good book before I went to bed.
• She ________________ a lion went she sent to zoo.
• A letter ________________ in the mail today.
• They ________________ for hiking yesterday.
• I ________________ my brother a game for his birthday.
• She ________________ a good report card so her mom was happy.
• I ________________ my friends when we went to the park.

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• He did his homework before he went to school.
• It was cold so we drank some hot chocolate.
• I made a sandcastle when I went to beach.
• It was a hot day so she swam in the lake yesterday.
• His car had a flat tire so he took the bus to work.
• I rode a horse last summer when I went to my uncle's farm.
• I was late for class so I ran to school.
• I ate two hamburgers so I am full.
• I read a good book before I went to bed.
• She saw a lion went she sent to zoo.
• A letter came in the mail today.
• They went for hiking yesterday.
• I gave my brother a game for his birthday.
• She got a good report card so her mom was happy.
• I met my friends when we went to the park.

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• 1. I my grandparents last weekend. (visit) visited
• 2. your sister the entire book? (read) Did read
• 3. We class yesterday. (not / have) didn’t have
• 4. I my old friend at the party. (meet) met
• 5. He sushi at the restaurant. (eat) ate
• 6. your friends to the concert with you? (go) Did go
• 7. The cat a mouse in the garden. (catch) caught
• 8. Steven the movie on TV. (not / watch) didn’t watch
• 9. Charlotte and Ryan the project on time. (complete) completed
• 10. They to Paris last summer. (travel) traveled
• 11. your brother his homework yesterday? (finish) Did finish
• 12. The team the championship last year. (win) won
• 13. We a new car in 2019. (buy) bought
• 14. The cat under the bed during the storm. (hide) hid
• 15. She her keys at home. (forget) forgot
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Past Continuous Quiz

You can do this grammar quiz online or print it on paper. It tests what you learned on the Past Continuous page.

1. My brother and sister _____ playing tennis at 11am yesterday.

2. _____ you still working at 7pm last night?

3. At 8.30am today I _____ driving to work.

4. We _____ sleeping when the police came.

5. Why _____ he having lunch at 4pm?

6. Was he not _____ his homework?

7. Snow _____ lightly. Suddenly a reindeer appeared.

8. Somebody threw a shoe at him _____ he was speaking.

9. They ________ TV when I arrived.

10. I was reading a detective story _____ I heard a noise.

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He______ (do) his homework at the moment.

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While I (drive) to work yesterday, I (see) an accident.

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was driving, seen

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A _________ (you / have) lunch by the time your visitors arrived?

B Yes, _________ (we / finish) eating by then.

had you had / we had finished

did you have / we finished

were you having / we were finishing

A_________ (I / not speak) to you yesterday because you looked busy when I saw you.

B Yes, _________ (I / try) to repair my printer when you came in.

I wasn't speaking / I tried

I had spoken / I tried

I didn't speak / I was trying

• 11. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt We ___ the test when she told us there wasn't any time left! hadn't even started didn't even start
• 12. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt I can't believe she ___ my sandwich! had eaten ate
• 13. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt I told John not to drive because he .......................................... all night drank was drinking had drunk had been drinking
• 14. Multiple Choice Edit 1 minute 1 pt Why did you change the channel? I ______ that movie. watched was watching had watched had been watching
• 15. Multiple Choice Edit 45 seconds 1 pt When I got married I ............................ with my girlfriend for 3 years. went out was going out had gone out had been going out
• 16. Multiple Choice Edit 1.5 minutes 1 pt When she arrived her eyes were very red. I think she ....................................................... has been crying cried was crying had been crying
• 17. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt When he entered the room somebody _____ him in the head. hit was hitting had hit had been hitting
• 18. Multiple Choice Edit 1.5 minutes 1 pt I almost didn't recognize her because she ... so much since we last met. changed was changing had changed had been changing
• 19. Multiple Choice Edit 1 minute 1 pt Where ... when I saw you this morning? did you go were you going had you gone had you been going
• 20. Multiple Choice Edit 1.5 minutes 1 pt We ... for a long time by the time he arrived. waited were waiting had waited had been waiting

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• My brother ( DRINK ) while he ( DO ) his homework.
• He ( WALK ) into the classroom, then he (SAT) down.
• Harry ( SING ) a song when Jane ( COME ) in.
• Nothing ( HAPPEN ) when I turned on the radio.
• It ( START ) to rain while I ( WALK ) through the park.
• Jackie ( LISTEN ) to the radio when the doorbell  ( RING ).
• He ( FIND ) some money when he ( CLEAN ) the cupboards.
• He ( SEE ) the accident when he (DRIVE) home from work.
• While Jimmy ( TELL ) a joke his teacher ( WALK ) in.
• The Smiths ( FLY ) to Italy yesterday.
• It ( BEGIN ) to snow while we ( PLAY ) football.
• They ( LIVE ) in Portugal when the earthquake ( HAPPEN )

Latrell Mitchell faces minimum three weeks on the sidelines after being charged with dangerous contact in Rabbitohs loss

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Latrell Mitchell is facing a minimum of three weeks on the sidelines after being charged with dangerous contact in South Sydney's loss to the Warriors. 

Mitchell appeared to extend his elbow into the head of Warriors star Shaun Johnson as the halfback attempted to tackle the Rabbitoh, with Mitchell put on report and the match review committee charging him with dangerous contact, marking his third and subsequent offence.

The 26-year-old was also put on report for a lifting tackle on Tohu Harris, but was not charged.

Penrith great Greg Alexander said in commentary that the act against Johnson was "blatant", later adding: "I don't know what goes through Latrell's mind at times in a game."

South Sydney coach Jason Demetriou shared his displeasure after the match.

"They're both just stupid things," Demetriou said in his post-match press conference.

"He's just got to be better. Simple as that.

"We'll have conversations through the week. As a group we'll be honest as we do every week."

South Sydney currently sits on the bottom of the table with one win from five matches and Queensland Maroons coach Billy Slater said "he's very lucky" to not be facing an even longer ban.

"I think he's very lucky that he's only got three weeks and he's very lucky that Shaun Johnson didn't break his jaw, because [Mitchell would] be missing half the season if [Johnson] did," Slater said on Channel Nine's Sunday Footy Show.

"This is pure frustration about the way he's playing [and] the way his team's playing."

Slater said this is an opportunity for Souths to "throw the cat amongst the pigeons" and "reset their season", suggesting the team could move off-season recruit Jack Wighton from centre to five-eighth, and move current pivot Cody Walker to halfback.

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Trump declines to endorse a national abortion ban and says it should be left to the states

Former President Donald Trump says he believes abortion should be left to the states in a video released Monday outlining his position after months of mixed messages and speculation.

Former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives for a GOP fundraiser, Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said he believes abortion limits should be left to the states, in a video released Monday declining to endorse a national ban after months of mixed messages and speculation.

“Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights,” Trump said in the video posted on his Truth Social site. “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land — in this case, the law of the state.”

Trump, in the video, did not say when in pregnancy he believes abortion should be banned — declining to endorse a national cutoff that would have been used as a cudgel by Democrats ahead of the November election . But his endorsement of the patchwork approach leaves him open to being attached to the strictest proposed state legislation, which President Joe Biden and his reelection campaign have already been working to do.

Anti-abortion activists expressed disappointment that Trump didn’t go further.

In the video, he again took credit for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end Roe v. Wade , saying that he was “proudly the person responsible for the ending” of the constitutional right to an abortion and thanking the conservative justices who overturned it by name.

While he again articulated his support for three exceptions — in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is at risk — he went on to describe the current legal landscape, in which different states have different restrictions following the court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling on June 24, 2022, which upended the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

“Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others and that’s what they will be,” he said. “At the end of the day it’s all about will of the people.”

The announcement declining endorsement of a national ban drew immediate condemnation from SBA Pro-Life America, one of the country’s most prominent groups opposed to abortion rights.

“We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s position,” said the group’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, in a statement. “Unborn children and their mothers deserve national protections and national advocacy from the brutality of the abortion industry. The Dobbs decision clearly allows both states and Congress to act.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of Trump’s congressional backers and supporter of a 15-week national ban, said he “respectfully” disagreed with Trump over abortion being an issue for the states.

Biden’s campaign said Trump was “endorsing every single abortion ban in the states, including abortion bans with no exceptions.”

“And he’s bragging about his role in creating this hellscape,” campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said on X.

In a statement, Biden said Trump has played a part in being “responsible for creating the cruelty and the chaos that has enveloped America since the Dobbs decision,” a situation he said is reflected in women “being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to go to court to seek permission for the medical attention they need, and left to travel hundreds of miles for health care.”

Biden said Trump is “worried that since he’s the one responsible for overturning Roe the voters will hold him accountable in 2024,” while Biden is “determined to restore the federal protections of Roe v. Wade.”

Trump had suggested last month in a radio interview that he was leaning toward supporting a national abortion ban at around 15 weeks of pregnancy — early in the second trimester — but, at the same time, seemed reluctant to embrace a federal prohibition.

“Everybody agrees — you’ve heard this for years — all the legal scholars on both sides agree: It’s a state issue. It shouldn’t be a federal issue, it’s a state issue,” he said.

Republican-led states have ushered in a wave of new restrictions following the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade. More than a dozen GOP-controlled states have banned abortion outright, while others have outlawed the procedure on increasingly diminishing timelines.

Other reproductive-related procedures have faced restrictions, including in vitro fertilization, which quickly became a talking point in the campaign after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled this year that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law. Trump said he strongly supports IVF availability . Alabama lawmakers and Republican Gov. Kay Ivey agreed to protect IVF providers from legal liability.

Democrats believe the fight over abortion rights helps them at the polls and have outperformed expectations in elections since. Voters in seven states have sided with abortion rights supporters on ballot measures, and abortion is expected to be on the ballot in more states this year, including Florida, Maryland and New York.

Trump has tried to thread the needle on abortion throughout the campaign, calling himself the “most pro-life president in American history” but also blaming GOP candidates who did not allow for exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the pregnant person is at risk for the party’s 2022 losses.

In the video, Trump told Republicans that they must “follow your heart on this issue. But remember, you must also win elections to restore our culture and, in fact, to save our country, which is currently and very sadly a nation in decline.”

Instead, he has tried to paint Democrats as the ones who are extreme on the issue.

“It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radical ones on this position,” he said in the video.

Democrats and Biden’s campaign, meanwhile, have been spotlighting the issue as they work to draw a contrast with Trump.

Polling has consistently shown that most Americans believe abortion should be legal through the initial stages of pregnancy. About half of U.S. adults said abortions should be permitted at the 15-week mark, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted last June .

Data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the vast majority of abortions from 2012 to 2021 were performed within the first 13 weeks of pregnancy.

The Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision established the constitutional right to abortion until the time of viability, at around 23 or 24 weeks into pregnancy.

Abortions later in pregnancy are rare and are often performed due to serious fetal abnormalities, when the life of the mother is at risk, or when women have faced significant delays accessing the procedure, according to the health policy research firm KFF .

___ Kinnard reported from Columbia, South Carolina. Associated Press writer Michelle L. Price contributed to this report.

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Trump tells billionaires he'll keep their taxes low at $50 million fundraising gala

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of extending his signature tax cuts to some of the nation’s wealthiest political donors, according to a readout of his private remarks Saturday night provided by a Trump campaign official.

“Trump spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern border, reducing inflation, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, eliminating Joe Biden’s insane [electric vehicle] mandate, protecting Israel, and avoiding global war,” the campaign official said of a roughly 45-minute speech to donors in Palm Beach, Florida.

The campaign declined NBC News’ requests to have a reporter present for his remarks and to make a full transcript of them available.

Trump senior advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said the dinner, held at the home of billionaire hedge fund investor John Paulson, grossed $50.5 million for a joint fundraising effort benefiting Trump’s campaign, his Save America political action committee, the Republican National Committee and state parties. That’s nearly double the $26 million President Joe Biden’s campaign said it raised last month at a star-studded Radio City Music Hall gala featuring former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

Biden hit Trump for promising to extend the 2017 tax cuts beyond 2025, when many of the provisions are set to expire, in a video released Saturday.

“When he thinks the cameras are not on, he tells his rich friends, quote, ‘We’re going to give you tax cuts,’” Biden says in the video as he stands with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a leading progressive who ran against Biden in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

Trump appeared to try to square raising a record-breaking amount of donations from the nation’s elite — a set that included billionaires such as sugar magnate José “Pepe” Fanjul Sr., oil baron Harold Hamm and Johnson & Johnson heir Woody Johnson — with a political movement fueled by populist themes.

“People are just wanting change,” he told reporters as he arrived at Paulson’s home. “The rich people want it. Poor people want it. Everybody wants change.”

During his remarks, Trump praised the assembled donors.

“We have expertise in this room that’s incredible — every one of you are leaders,” he said, according to the campaign official.

From the head table, Trump spoke for about 45 minutes to 117 guests seated under a giant tent, according to the campaign official. Afterward, they dined on endive and frisee salad, filet au poivre, and pavlova with fresh berries.

Several of Trump’s vanquished primary foes — Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum — also addressed the crowd, as did Republican National Committee co-chairs Lara Trump and Michael Whatley, the official said.

Trump’s 2017 tax cut reduced income tax rates for the vast majority of Americans, including top earners and most lower-income workers. Many of its provisions are set to expire in 2025, including a break for owners of so-called pass-through businesses — entities that are not taxed because the profits flow through to the owners, who are individually taxed — that are favored by hedge funds, private equity partnerships and privately held companies. The liberal-leaning, nonpartisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has estimated that extending the pass-through deduction would cost the government $700 billion in lost revenue over a decade.

Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.

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Man Killed by No. 4 Train After Being Pushed Onto Subway Tracks

A man was arrested and charged with murder after the attack in East Harlem, which the police described as unprovoked.

By Christopher Maag

A 24-year-old man was arrested Monday night and charged with murder after pushing another man to his death on the subway tracks at a station in East Harlem, the police said.

The attack by the man, Carlton McPherson, was unprovoked, officials said. It took place at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station at 6:48 p.m., when Mr. McPherson shoved the man in front of an oncoming No. 4 train, officials said. The operator was unable to stop the train in time to save him, the police said.

The police had not identified the victim as of Tuesday morning. A senior law enforcement official said Monday evening that the man who was in custody appeared to have a history of mental illness. He had several arrests in Brooklyn, the first one at age 16, the official said.

Train service at the station had resumed by 9 p.m. Monday, but a large number of police officers remained at the scene. Some riders expressed fear of violence on platforms and on trains.

“The subway has been insane lately,” Ray Velez, 60, from the Bronx, said as he waited on the platform two hours after the attack. “You have to look everywhere now. It’s just out of control.”

He added, “I wish someone would notice how many mentally ill people we have on the subways and try to get them out of the subway.”

Others who live and work near the station expressed a weary sense of frustration. They described regular encounters with people experiencing problems related to drug addiction, homelessness and mental illness, and their own efforts to remain on guard.

“I’m very careful” inside the station, said Geri Tolentino, 54, who has worked for two years at the Harlem Food Square deli, near the entrance to the 125th Street station. “It’s not surprising — there’s a lot of crime downstairs.”

The attack is the latest in a series of violent episodes that have led officials to increase the police presence in the subway and seek to reassure New Yorkers that the system is safe.

Earlier this month, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that she would deploy the National Guard and the State Police in the system to increase security and ease New Yorkers’ fears.

But less than two weeks after Ms. Hochul’s announcement, a fight on the A train that ended with a shooting reinforced the difficulties of policing every inch of the sprawling system. In that confrontation, captured in a dramatic video recorded by a passenger, a man who had been menacing a rider was first stabbed and then shot with his own handgun.

Monday’s attack happened hours after Police Department leaders had gathered at a different subway station on West 125th Street in Harlem to announce that an additional 800 police officers would be sent into the subway to crack down on fare evasion.

“Our riders should not be subjected to open acts of lawlessness anywhere in our subway system,” Timothy Skretch, deputy chief of the Transit Bureau, said at the news conference, “and that tone of law and order must start at the fare gates.”

Many New Yorkers’ fears about the subway rose during the pandemic, especially after a man with a history of mental illness assaulted Michelle Alyssa Go in January 2022, pushing her onto the southbound tracks as an R train pulled into the Times Square station. She was killed .

This year, a woman had both her feet amputated in early March after her boyfriend pushed her onto the tracks, where she was struck by a southbound No. 3 train. And a woman was hospitalized in critical condition last October after a man described by officials as emotionally disturbed shoved her in front of an E train that was leaving the 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue station.

Andy Newman , Hurubie Meko and Karla Marie Sanford contributed reporting.

An earlier version of this article misstated the station at which Michelle Alyssa Go was killed. It was Times Square, not Canal Street.

An earlier version of this article misidentified the person who was unable to stop a No. 4 train in time to save a man who had been pushed onto the tracks at a station in East Harlem. It was the train’s operator, not its conductor. 

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