Past Tense - Exercise

Exercise

1) Fill in with the past tense of the verb TO BE.

a)Today’s Monday. Yesterday_______________Sunday.

b)We________at the movies yesterday afternoon.

c)Candy_________a cute baby.

d)Jane__________late for her first class last Monday.

e)The leaves_________green last month. Now they’re yellow.

f)Yesterday___________mom’s birthday.

g)How much_________the talcum powder?

h)My uncle and my aunt________in Philadelphia last week.

2) Write these sentences in the interrogative form.

a)Candy was here last night.

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b)They were absent from the last class.

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c)All vegetables on the farm were fresh.

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d)Mike was tired this morning.

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3) Complete these sentences with the negative form of the verb TO BE.

a)We_________here yesterday.

b)she_________at the party last night.

c)I___________at home this morning.

d)They_________well last Sunday.

4) Write the interrogative and negative forms of these sentences.

a)They were in New York last week.

N______________________________________________________________

I-______________________________________________________________

b)The letters were on my office’s table.

N-_____________________________________________________________

I-______________________________________________________________

c)I was at home.

N-_____________________________________________________________

I-______________________________________________________________

d)His last French teacher was Nice.

N-_____________________________________________________________

I-______________________________________________________________

e)All your mathematics exercises were correct.

N-_____________________________________________________________

I-______________________________________________________________

5) Fill in the blaks with the correct form of the past tense of the verb TO BE. The subjects of the sentences are in parentheses

a)_________in the school last night. (Joe)

b)____________good?(the movie)

c)_____________big or small?(your last car)

d)_____________at the party.(your friends)

e)_____________at home yesterday morning.(mom, not)

f)______________absent from the last class.(a lof of students)

g)_______________very good.(my math exercises, not)

h)_______________on uncle Sam’s farm last July.(I)

i)________________at Joe’s party last Sunday.(Brenda and Jane).

j)________________very fresh.(the tomatoes, not)

6) Passe as frases do presente para o passado.

a)I am a student.

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b)You are doctors.

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c)They are very beautiful.

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d)He is a teacher.

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7) Conjugate the Past Tense of the verb TO BE in the affirmative, interrogative and negative forms.

            AFFIRMATIVE                      NEGATIVE                       INTERROGATIVE