Exercise : Past Tense (Indefinite/ Continuous? Perfect/ Perfect Continuous)

1. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb (Past Tense: Indefinite/ Continuous/ Perfect/ Perfect Continuous) given in brackets.
(i) The rain ....................(stop) when she arrived.
(ii) When I reached the station she ................(wait) for me for two hours.
(iii) No sooner ............I .........the school than the bell rang.
(iv) Hardly ........they .........(begin) quarrelling when the teacher came into the classroom.
(v) The bank .........(make) the payment by that time.
(vi) At 10 p.m. last night we ...........(drive) through the forest.
(vii) The patient .............(die) before the doctor came.
(viii) I was tired because I ............(work) in the field.
(ix) India ...........(become) free in 1947.
(x) While my mother ..............(cook), my father was watching television.

Answers:
(i) The rain had stopped when she arrived.
(ii) When I reached the station she had been waiting for me for two hours.
(iii) No sooner did I reach the school than the bell rang.
(iv) Hardly had they begun quarrelling when the teacher came into the classroom.
(v) The bank had made the payment by that time.
(vi) At 10 pm last night we were driving through the forest.
(vii) The patient had died before the doctor came.
(viii) I was tired because I had been working in the field.
(ix) India became free in 1947.
(x) While my mother was cooking, my father was watching television.