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Practice #1
Perfect Tenses

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Peter Black

Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the verb.

Peter Black _______ in Queens, New York; he _______ there for 32 years, all his life.
                    (live)                                               (live)

 He _______ in any other house but the one he _______ in now. The family _______
(live, never)                                                  (reside)                                  (stay)

 in this part of Queens even though there ________ a lot more crime in recent years.
                                                                (be)

Peter's father __________ six years ago and his sister ___________ last year, but
                          (die)                                                (get married)

 Peter _________ home and _________ alone with his mother since then.
           (stay)                            (live)

    Every Sunday Peter __________ to the same corner store to buy the same
                                     (walk)

 newspaper at the same time, and he _________ back past the same small park. All his
                                                         (walk)

 neighbors _________ him since he _________ and __________ to him every
                   (know)                        (be born)               (wave)

 Sunday morning on his way to corner store.  Peter _________ for the same company
                                                                                (work)

 since he __________high school, and _________ the same bus route at the same
                (leave)                                   (take)

time every day. Each summer Peter ___________ his mother for a week's vacation to
                                                         (take)

 Florida and he __________ going anywhere else. Peter's aunt _________ to persuade
                    (consider, never)                                              (try, often)

 him to get married and she _____________ him to a few nice young women,
                                        (introduce, even)

but Peter ____________ that he only ________  "a girl just like the girl
                (say, always)                      (want)

who _________ dear old Dad".  Anyway, he _______, he ________ used to his
         (marry)                                                  (say)               (get)

mother’s cooking and the way she ________ his socks and _________ his shirts.
                                                 (wash, always)                     (iron)

 Peter _________ changes; ________ the same program on T.V. every Saturday night
         (like/negative)             (watch)

 for the last 20 years, and he ________ the same kind of beer while watching the
                                              (drink)

football or baseball games. Every morning for years, he _________with the same kind
                                                                                   (shave)

 of shaving cream, and ________ the same color suit every day of his working life.
                                     (wear)

 I guess you could say that Peter's life ________ pretty dull; but now things are going
                                                             (be)

 to be a lot different because last week Peter...

Now, what do you think happened to Peter last week?

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