How to Improve English: Past Tense Exercise
Here is an English verb tense exercise for you to practice.
Read the paragraphs below and focus on the underlined verbs. As you read, write down how the verbs should be written in the past tense.
When you have finished, check the comment section of this post to see if you have the correct answers.
Good luck!
Amber is a journalist who decide to cover a story in Canada. She see that there is a gigantic storm that come to the north-east section of the country. Her only predicament is that she end up getting stuck in New York. The airplane that she is scheduled to take was inoperable due to engine failure.
She leave and go to a larger airport to book another flight. Once she arrive to the airport she realize that she leave her purse in the taxi! She assume that by the time she make it to Canada, the storm be over.
She just decide to give up, so she get in a taxi and go home!














Amber was a journalist who decided to cover a story in Canada. She saw that there was a gigantic storm that had come to the north-east section of the country. Her only predicament was that she ended up getting stuck in New York. The airplane that she was scheduled to take was inoperable due to engine failure.
She left and went to a larger airport to book another flight. Once she had arrived to the airport, she realized that she had left her purse in the taxi! She assumed that by the time she would make it to Canada, the storm would be over.
She just decided to give up, so she got in a taxi and went home!
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Submitted by Blabbinit.com on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 14:15.