Past Perfect and Past Simple

GRAMMAR CONSOLIDATION UNIT 2

Past perfect and past simple

1 Underline the correct answer.

By the time we got to the accident, they rescued / had rescued the passengers.

1 By the time the ship capsized / had capsized, the survivors had already escaped.

2 I didn’t realise / hadn’t realised there were any survivors before I read about the crash in the newspaper.

3 They went out to dinner after they finished / had finished the rescue.

4 When the search and rescue workers left / had left, the man had already been missing for 24 hours.

5 What did the firefighters do after the hotel caught / had caught fire?

6 The car crashed / had crashed before it caught fire.

7 The paramedics had already left by the time we arrived / had arrived.

2 Complete the sentences with the words and phrases in the box.

after after already before by the time when

After I had spoken to Jenny on the phone, I was in a car accident.

1 I hadn’t seen a search and rescue operation ______the emergency last week.

2 We had ______given him first aid by the time the paramedics arrived.

3 Most people had left the building ______the firefighters came.

4 The ship had already capsized ______the rescue boats arrived.

5 The charity sent international aid ______the earthquake had happened.

3 Complete the sentences with the past perfect or past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

I had driven the car twice before I crashed it. (drive)

1 Had the ship already capsized before you ______in a lifeboat? (get)

2 When they found the survivors they ______for two days. (not eat)

3 By the time they ______the victim, she had had been trapped for three days. (find)

4 We phoned for an ambulance after the helicopter ______. (crash)

5 Had you already received compensation before you ______a new house? (buy)

Subject and object questions

4 Match questions 1–6 with answers a–f.

1 What happened to you? b

2 Who do search and rescue workers help? ___

3 Why did you phone the firefighters? ___

4 Where did the survivors sleep? ___

5 Who received compensation? ___

6 Who rescued the victim? ___

a) The people in the other car.

b) I had a crash on my motorbike.

c) In a small house.

d) People who are in distress or victims of disasters.

e) My house was on fire.

f) The firefighters.

5 Are the questions from exercise 4 subject or object questions?
Write S (subject) or O (object).

1 S

2 ___

3 ___

4 ___

5 ___

6 ___