Past Simple
Quiz
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of the past simple. Observe the use of the given time expressions.
My uncle and aunt ...... (travel) to Italy during the autumn.
Jack ...... (not / drive) a car when he was a teenager.
Kate ...... (not / speak) French when she was still a teenager.
The clown ...... (not / play) any tricks on the audience when he first started doing the job.
Mr and Mrs White ...... (live) in Florence when their children were still very young.
My university professors ...... (go) away for two weeks during the summer.
Some of my colleagues ...... (not / use) computers when they started working in this company.
The carpenters ...... (not / sell) those beds when I was born.
My wife's best friend ...... (not / paint) pictures when she was a child.
David's previous supervisor ...... (live) in Bratislava from 2003 to 2005.
My maths teacher ...... (deliver) maths and physics classes from 1994 to 2009.
Our foreman always ...... (sit) a long time in his office before he gave us the green light.
Before she retired, Angela ...... (do) a lot of good for the company.
Those fire fighters ...... (save) a lot of people's lives while they were with the department.
While the detective was with the force, he ...... (arrest) a lot of criminals.