Question

Luciano Pavarotti ________ (to give) his last performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. had given was giving In this test sentence we are given some time-signals that are typical for the past simple tense: ‘last…’ and the definite year - 2006. We use the past tense to talk about something that happened once in the past - a completed action in a time before now. Duration is not important: Sally watched TV last night.; Did you play tennis at weekends?. For regular verbs, we add -ed to the base form of the verb (work – worked) or -d if the verb already ends in -e (move – moved). In the test sentence we need to form the past form of the irregular verb ‘give’. Many verbs are irregular and we have to learn them: arise – arose – arisen; bet – bet – bet; freeze – froze – frozen; etc. The past form of the irregular verb ‘give’ is ‘gave’. Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 2 (gave). 1

Accepted Answer

2 gave had been given past tenses

Task	Luciano Pavarotti ________ (to give) his last performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Answer	2
a	had given
b	gave
c	was giving
d	had been given
comment	In this test sentence we are given some time-signals that are typical for the past simple tense: ‘last…’ and the definite year - 2006. We use the past tense to talk about something that happened once in the past - a completed action in a time before now. Duration is not important: Sally watched TV last night.; Did you play tennis at weekends?. For regular verbs, we add -ed to the base form of the verb (work – worked) or -d if the verb already ends in -e (move – moved). In the test sentence we need to form the past form of the irregular verb ‘give’. Many verbs are irregular and we have to learn them: arise – arose – arisen; bet – bet – bet; freeze – froze – frozen; etc. The past form of the irregular verb ‘give’ is ‘gave’. Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 2 (gave).
topic	past tenses
level	1

Past Form Verb Irregular Test Sentence Bet Luciano