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C2ProficiencyTopic: Tenses

Was to have done, would and you're being

Practise was to and was to have done, would in stories, the past for politeness, be in the continuous and it's the first time.

23 questionsby Grove EnglishAdded 11 Nov 2026

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Choose the form

Choose the correct option for each gap.

  1. In 1912 she sailed for New York. She her sisters again.

  2. The new terminal in March, but the builders went bust.

  3. Every evening my grandmother by the window and knit.

  4. a coffee before we start?

  5. You very unreasonable about this.

  6. It's the first time I on the left.

  7. It's high time the council something about the potholes.

  8. She left school at sixteen; fifteen years later she the company's youngest director.

  9. In those days we a small flat above a bakery.

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Pages of this quiz

  1. Page 1Choose the form

    Choose the correct option for each gap.

  2. Page 2What does it mean?

    Match each sentence with its meaning.

  3. Page 3Find the mistakes

    Some of the sentences are correct. Find and correct the mistakes.

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