Englivio Worksheets
2-Event Structures (Pt. 2)
Simultaneous Actions & Complex Sequences
1. “I ___ (study) while my brother ___ (watch) TV.”
2. “By the time the sun ___ (set), we ___ (walk) for five hours.”
3. “When the phone ___ (ring), I ___ (have) a shower.”
4. “She ___ (already / eat) when I ___ (arrive) home.”
5. “I ___ (not / see) him since we ___ (graduate) from college.”
6. “If it ___ (rain) tomorrow, we ___ (cancel) the picnic.”
7. “As soon as I ___ (get) home, I ___ (call) you.”
8. “The teacher ___ (enter) the room while the students ___ (shout).”
9. “I ___ (live) in Paris for three years before I ___ (move) to London.”
10. “After he ___ (finish) his work, he ___ (go) to the gym.”
11. True or False: ‘While’ usually signals that two long actions were happening at the same time.
12. True or False: In the sentence ‘I saw him while I was walking’, ‘saw’ is the interrupting action.
13. True or False: ‘By the time’ clauses usually use the future simple tense.
14. True or False: ‘Until’ shows the point in time when an action stops.
15. True or False: The sequence ‘Past Perfect then Simple Past’ indicates which action happened first.
16. Choose the correct future structure: “By next year, I ___ (graduate).”
17. “He ___ (wait) for the bus for 30 minutes when it finally ___ (arrive).”
18. “She ___ (sleep) when the alarm ___ (go) off.”
19. “They ___ (work) on the project since Monday.”
20. Identify the error: “When I had got home, my mother was cooking dinner.”
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