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🕘 Past Simple vs Past Perfect – Mixed Grammar Exercise

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🕘 Past Simple vs. Past Perfect – Mixed Grammar Exercise

✅ Practice Using the Two Past Tenses in English

🧑‍🏫 تمرين على الماضي البسيط والماضي التام مع الحل والترجمة

📌 Rule Summary

🔹 Simple Past: for actions that happened at a specific time in the past.
🔹 Past Perfect: for actions that happened before another action in the past.

ملخص القاعدة:

🔹 الماضي البسيط: لفعل حدث في وقت معين بالماضي.
🔹 الماضي التام: لفعل حدث قبل فعل آخر في الماضي.

📝 Complete the following sentences using either past simple or past perfect of the verbs in brackets.

  1. When I ……………….(get) to the station, the train ……………(leave) already.

  2. She …………………….(read) the book before she……………. (watch) the movie.

  3. They ………………………(not / eat) anything before they…………………… (arrive) at the restaurant.

  4. After……………………. I (finish) my homework, I ………………..(go) to bed.

  5. We ………………………..(never / see) such a beautiful sunset before we ………………………..(travel) to Morocco.

  6. He………………………. (turn off) the lights after everyone ……………….(leave) the room.

  7. By the time the show ……………………………………(start), we………………. (find) our seats.

  8. I ……………………….(call) her after I………………. (receive) the message.

  9. The teacher ……………….(check) the test before the student ………………(ask) the question.

  10. They …………….(build) the house before we………………. (move) into the neighborhood.

✅ Answer Key

  1. got / had left

  2. had read / watched

  3. had not eaten / arrived

  4. had finished / went

  5. had never seen / traveled

  6. turned off / had left

  7. started / had found

  8. called / had received

  9. had checked / asked

  10. had built / moved

🌍 Arabic Translations (مع الترجمة)

  1. عندما وصلت إلى المحطة، كان القطار قد غادر بالفعل.

  2. قرأت الكتاب قبل أن تشاهد الفيلم.

  3. لم يأكلوا أي شيء قبل أن يصلوا إلى المطعم.

  4. بعد أن أنهيت واجبي، ذهبت إلى النوم.

  5. لم نرَ غروبًا جميلًا كهذا قبل أن نسافر إلى المغرب.

  6. أطفأ الأضواء بعد أن غادر الجميع الغرفة.

  7. عندما بدأ العرض، كنا قد وجدنا مقاعدنا.

  8. اتصلت بها بعد أن استلمت الرسالة.

  9. راجع المعلم الاختبار قبل أن يسأل الطالب السؤال.

  10. كانوا قد بنوا المنزل قبل أن ننتقل إلى الحي.

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Practice the Past Perfect in English with Answers

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Past Perfect Simple – Exercises with Arabic Translation

✅ Practice the Past Perfect in English with Answers

🕘 تمرين على زمن الماضي التام مع الترجمة والحل

🧠 Grammar Rule – قاعدة سريعة

We use the past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past.

نستخدم الماضي التام للتحدث عن حدث وقع قبل حدث آخر في الماضي.

✅ Form:
had + past participle

مثال:

  • I had eaten before he arrived.
    كنت قد أكلت قبل أن يصل.

✍️ Exercise 1: Complete the sentences using the past perfect.

اكمل الجمل باستخدام زمن الماضي التام

  1. When I arrived, they __________ (already / leave).
    عندما وصلت، كانوا قد غادروا بالفعل.

  2. She __________ (study) English before she moved to Canada.
    كانت قد درست الإنجليزية قبل أن تنتقل إلى كندا.

  3. We __________ (not / finish) our homework when the teacher came.
    لم نكن قد أنهينا واجبنا عندما جاء المعلم.

  4. They __________ (close) the shop before 8 p.m.
    كانوا قد أغلقوا المتجر قبل الساعة 8 مساءً.

  5. He __________ (not / clean) the house before the guests arrived.
    لم يكن قد نظف المنزل قبل وصول الضيوف.

  6. After she __________ (eat), she went to bed.
    بعد أن أكلت، ذهبت إلى النوم.

  7. The children __________ (build) a snowman before it started raining.
    كان الأطفال قد صنعوا رجل ثلج قبل أن تبدأ الأمطار.

  8. I __________ (never / see) such a beautiful view before I visited Italy.
    لم أرَ منظرًا جميلًا كهذا من قبل حتى زرت إيطاليا.

  9. We __________ (be) in the museum for 2 hours when it closed.
    كنا في المتحف لمدة ساعتين عندما تم إغلاقه.

  10. They __________ (not / hear) the news until I told them.
    لم يسمعوا الخبر حتى أخبرتهم.

✅ Exercise 2: Choose the correct option

اختر الإجابة الصحيحة

  1. She had ___ the cake before dinner.
    a) eat
    b) ate
    c) eaten

  2. They ___ gone home when we arrived.
    a) has
    b) had
    c) have

  3. We ___ seen that movie before.
    a) had
    b) has
    c) have

  4. He hadn’t ___ the letter.
    a) read
    b) reads
    c) reading

  5. I ___ finished my project when the power went out.
    a) had
    b) have
    c) was

📋 Answers

Exercise 1

  1. had already left

  2. had studied

  3. had not finished

  4. had closed

  5. had not cleaned

  6. had eaten

  7. had built

  8. had never seen

  9. had been

  10. had not heard

Exercise 2

  1. c) eaten

  2. b) had

  3. a) had

  4. a) read

  5. a) had