Solved exercises
Here you have some solved exercises to practice with both the Simple Past and Past Continuous Tenses in interrogative, as well as with question words in the sentence (exercises from 1 to 4).
Exercise 5 is about countable and uncountable nouns and exercise 6 deals with some and any.
Finally, exercises 7 and 8 are about quantifiers in English.
Solved exercise 1: Simple Past interrogative form
1) My cousin lived in Brazil for a long time.
2) Paco studied English with Sonia before the trip.
3) He spoke on the phone with him yesterday.
4) They stayed at the party with us.
5) I waited for them until late.
Solved exercise 2: Simple Past interrogative with question words
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1) We waited for him in the park.
2) I opened the window.
3) Paco watched the match last night.
4) She asked her friend because she didn't know what to do.
5) The teacher checked our homework in class.
Solved exercise 3: Past Continuous interrogative form
1) My grandfather was feeding the birds in the park.
2) Alex and Andrés were repairing their computer.
3) Sonia was swimming in the lake for half an hour.
4) Paco was taking a shower after the match.
5) Paco's parents were having dinner outside on Saturday night.
Solved exercise 4: Past Continuous interrogative with question words
1) My grandfather was feeding the birds in the park.
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2) Alex and Andrés were repairing their computer.
3) Sonia was swimming in the lake for half an hour.
4) Paco was taking a shower after the match.
5) Paco's parents were having dinner outside on Saturday night because it was their anniversary.
Solved exercise 5: countable and uncountable nouns
1) ketchup 2) peach 3) hair
4) mangoes 5) picture 6) pop corn
7) candy 8) salt 9) strawberry
10) money 11) cucumber 12) cookies
13) mayonnaise 14) water 15) bread
16) potato 17) eggs 18) oil
19) cake 20) furniture 21) flour
Solved exercise 6: some and any
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1) Sonia went to the cinema with _____ of her friends.
2) Paco doesn't have _____ friends in London.
3) Have you got _____ brothers or sisters? - Yes, I have _____.
4) Here is _____ food for the pets.
5) I think you should put _____ flowers on the table.
6) Can you check for me if I have _____ calls on the phone?
7) I don't want _____ presents for my wedding anniversary.
8) The children are hungry. I'll prepare _____ sandwiches for them.
9) Do you have _____ news from her?
10) There isn't _____ milk in the fridge.
Solved exercise 7: quantifiers
1) There were so many cars on the street that I couldn't park mine.
2) I missed my mother so much that I wrote a letter to her everyday.
3) A large number of pidgeons are going to be killed.
4) When the lorry had the accident, a large amount of petrol was on the road.
5) It's too much food for me. I can't go on eating.
6) There are too many books in the school library.
7) You should have a great deal of patience with children.
8) John is a stamp collector. He's got a great many.
Identify all the quantifiers in these sentences. There is one in each sentence.
Then, say if they are used with countable or uncountable nouns.
Solved exercise 8: a little, little, a few, few
1) I've got __________ good friends in London.
2) My mother likes coffee with ___________ sugar.
3) __________ people are interested in learning Swahili.
4) You have __________ money to spend at the weekend.