THE SIMPLE PAST
Alice (smoke)__________ a cigarette
EXERCISE 1
1. Tom gets some mail every day
Tom got some mail yesterday
2. They go to downtown every day
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3. We have lunch every day
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4. I see my friends every day
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5. Hamid sits in the front row every day
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6. I sleep for eight hours every night
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7. The students stand in line at the
cafetaria
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8. I write a letter to my parents every day
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9. Kate comes to class late every day
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10. We do exercises in class every day
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11. I eat breakfast every morning
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12. I get up at seven every day
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15.
EXERCISE 2 after class yesterday.
16. My wife (come)_________ home around
1. I (get)_________ up at eight oclock five every day.
yesterday morning. 17. Yesterday she (come)________ home at
2. Mary (talk)_________ to John on the phone 5:15.
last night. 18. Our teacher (stand)_________ in the
3. Mary (talk)_________ to John on the phone middle of the room right now.
right now. 19. Our teacher (stand)________ in the
4. Mary (talk)________ to John on the phone front of the room yesterday.
every day. 20. John usually (sit)________ in the back of
5. Jim and I (eat)_______ lunch at the the room,but yesterday he(sit)_______ in
cafetaria two hours ago. the front row.Today he (be)______
6. We (eat)________ lunch at the cafetaria absent.He (be)_________ absent two days
every day. ago too.
7. I (go)___________ to bed early last night.
8. My roommate (study)_______ S[anish last
year.
9. Sue (write)___________a letter to her
parents yesterday.
10. She (write)_______ a letter to her
parents every week.
11. Sue is in her room right now.She
(sit)_________ at her desk. She
(write)__________a letter to her boyfriend.
12. Marianne (do)_________ her homework
last night.
13. Yesterday I (see)________ Dick at the
library.
14. I (have)________ a dream last night. I
(dream)_______about my friends. I
(sleep)_______ for eight hours.