EXERCISE 32.1

In the text box, write the correct past tense or past participle form of the verb needed to fill each blank. Example:

They had already eaten (eat) the entrée; later they ate (eat) the dessert.

  1. The babysitter _________ (let) the children play with my schoolbooks, and before I _________ (come) home, they had _________ (tear) out several pages.
    let, came, torn

  2. After they had _________ (review) the evidence, the jury ________ (find) the defendant not guilty.
    reviewed, found

  3. Hypnosis _________ (work) only on willing participants.
    works

  4. My parents _________ (plant) a tree for me in the town where I was born, but I have never _________ (go) back to see it.
    planted, gone

  5. Some residents _________ (know) that the levee was leaking long before the storms, but authorities _________ (ignore) the complaints.
    knew, ignored

  6. I _________ (paint) a picture from a photograph my sister had _________ (take) at the beach.
    painted, taken

  7. When the buzzer sounded, the racers _________ (spring) into the water and _________ (swim) toward the far end of the pool.
    sprang, swam

  8. We had _________ (assume) for some time that surgery was a possibility, and we had _________ (find) an excellent facility.
    assumed, found

  9. Once the storm had _________ (pass), we could see that the old oak tree had _________ (fall).
    passed, fallen

  10. Some high-level employees _________ (decide) to speak publicly about the cover-up before the company’s official story had _________ (be) released to the media.
    decided, been