Past Tenses

E) will be getting/had decided
29 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
After long consideration we ... to the conclusion our behaviour ... .
A) came/had been justified
B) came/will be justified
C) will come/would be justified
D) are coming/will justify
E) has come/are being justified
30 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
Christopher Columbus didn't know where he ... . When he landed he didn't know where he ... when he got back to Spain he
didn't know where he ... .
A) was sailing/was/had been
B) had sailed/was/was
C) is sailing/had been/has been
D) will be sailing/will be/will have been
E) would sail/hadn't been/haven't been
31 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
It started one day in 1949, when a woman from Copenhagen read a letter which a boy ... to Father Christmas. She liked the
letter so much that she sat down and ... an answer.
A) had written/was written
B) has written/writes
C) have written/will write
D) had written/wrote
E) wrote/had been written
32 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
She said that Bob ... as he ... research work.
A) was busy/was doing
B) was busy/had done
C) was busy/have done
D) was busy/would be doing
E) is busy/will be doing
33 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
I knew that she ... Miss Betsy, because I remembered how my mother ... her.
A) was/had described
B) is/described
C) would be/had described
D) had been/described
E) has been/describes
34 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
When we ... the station the train ... already ... .
A) reach/has/left