These tasks can help you to practice The Past Perfect Tense. Read grammar rules on p. 208 - 209 and then do the exercises.

15. Underline the correct verb form in each of the following sentences.

1. People have always polluted / had always polluted their surroundings.

2. Before we came, they had discussed / were discussing the problems that threaten human life on Earth.

3. With the development of industrial cities, which put huge amounts of pollutants into small areas, the problem has become / had become urgent.

4. Our forests are disappearing / had disappeared because they are cut down or burnt.

5. She was relieved to hear that he had saved / saved those animals.

6. If nothing is done / had done about it, one day nothing will be able to live in the seas.

7. He said that he has developed / had developed new methods.

 

16. Fill in the table with the forms of the following verbs:

to roll, to remove, to break, to heat, to twist, to bend

Example: to draw

  Indefinite Continuous Perfect Perfect Continuous
Present draw are drawing have drawn have been drawing
Past drew were drawing had drawn had been drawing
Future will draw will be drawing will have drawn will have been drawing