Self Study Guide – Test Your English Grammar Part 06

When I ______ this morning, the sun was shining, and the birds were singing.

Mozart died while he ______ the Requiem.

While I ______ in this firm one summer, I met a terrific man, whom I married the following year.

When the earthquake occurred at 3:49 AM, most people in the city ______ in their beds at home.

When you phoned I ______ in the garage.

I was tired because I ______ all day.

The headmaster entered. The boys ______ for him for a quarter of an hour.

At six, when I got to the car park, I realised that I ______ my keys.

Kate had dirt on her hands and knees as she ______ some gardening.

In the morning all the roads were blocked: it ______ all night.

All the people we had invited ______, and some that we had not invited.

Nobody came to the meeting as Angela ______ to tell people about it.

I told him that I ______ of the place before.

By that time, Sam’s photo ______ to the policemen.

The lesson ______ when I arrived so I excused myself and came in.

When we came to live in the US, my father couldn’t work as a dentist right away because he ______ the state examination yet.

By the time the ancient Egyptian civilization began to flourish more than 5,000 years ago, the onion ______ the main food throughout the Middle East for many years.

In 1996 Honda Motor Corporation presented the world with P-2, a robot different from any other that ______ until then.

By the time my father retired last year, he ______ dentistry for thirty years.

When I found Mary, I could see that she ______.

"Do you know when Mrs Greenleaf's train ______?" he asked.

Look up in the time-table when the last train ______ the station.

By analyzing historical and current data, meteorologists can predict the number of hurricanes that ______ in the Caribbean in any given year.

So you’re visiting another country this year. You already have your tickets, and you leave next Tuesday at 4 PM. A week from now you ______ in the sunshine.

My dear husband promised that he ______ me a car for my birthday, but he didn’t say which birthday.