7892 past perfect past simple and past continuous upperintermediate grammar revision

A) Choose the correct tense.
- We launched the second version once we
had seen/were seeing how succesful the
first one was.
- By the time he was applying/’d applied,
the job had already gone.
- After he had invested/was investing
more money, the bussiness took off.
- He called while I tried/was trying to
finish this essay.
- The entrepeneur gave/had given another
billion dollars to charity after he had
already given three billion.
- We didn’t need to clean the house
because he had already done/already did
it.
- I studied bussiness in the evening while
I was working/had worked in the kitchen.
- She left before anyone had had/was
having a chance to explain the situation.
- The bussiness went/was going bankrupt
last month and they couldn’t save it.
- All last year, the company had
looked/was looking for ways to survive.
- When Akio Morita was 26, he had
started/started his own company.
- After he had been/was in bussiness for
a year, we had made/made our first
profit.
- Before she started/had started this
company she’d worked/worked in a fashion

industry.
- He had made/made a fortune before he
had started/started the company.

B) Complete the text. Use Past Simple and Past
Perfect.
Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the
world has given almost his $44 billion fortune
away. Buffett ______ (buy) shares before he
_____ (be) 12, and by the time he ____ (be)
14, he _______ (make) his first purchase of
land. After he ______ (complete) his Masters
degree in Columbia Business School, he _____
(begin) his own investment partnership in 1956.
Buffett’s wife was going to supervise his
charity work and donations but she ______
(die) in 2004. They ______ (not live) together
since 1977.
Buffett has given his fortune to a
charity run by the world’s richest
man, Bill Gates. Once Gate’s _____
(make) a fortune with Microsoft,
he ______ (set up) the Gates
Foundation. Before he _____ (be) 50, Gates
______ (give) $26 billion to charity. The Gates
Foundation is now the biggest charitable trust
in the world.
C) Complete the sentences. Use Past Perfect or
Past Simple.
- Pat _____ (live) in London before he ______

(move) to Rome.
- After Fred ______ (spend) his holiday in
Italy, he _____ (want) to learn Italian.
- Jill ______ (phone) Dad at work before she
_______ (leave) for her trip.
- Susan _______ (turn on) the radio after she
________ (wash) the dishes.
- When she _______ (arrive) to the match
______ already _______ (start)
- After the man ______ (come) home, he
______ (feed) the cat.