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1. The day was cold and it was raining. When I reached home, my raincoat was all wet. I took it off, shook the water off it, hung it up and went into the living-room. My children were playing on the carpet. When they saw me, they jumped up and ran up to me.

2. I have heard this song several times already, but I cannot remember the words. I will write them down as soon as I hear this song again.

3. Hardly had he opened the suit-case, when he found the tie which he thought he had lost long before.

4. Shut the door! The room is full of smells which are coming from the kitchen. Mother does not like kitchen smells in the room.

5. Last night he finished the book which he had begun writing a year ago.

6. He said he had been listening to the same stories for a long time.

7. By the evening he had translated ten pages.

8. Have you ever been to the new stadium? — Yes, I was there last Saturday.

9. The old lady was happy: she had not seen her son for three years.

10. What did you do yesterday?

11. How many pages have you translated for today?

1. The day was cold and it was raining. When I reached home, my raincoat was all wet. I took it off, shook the water off it, hung it up and went into the living-room. My children were playing on the carpet. When they saw me, they jumped up and ran up to me.

Explanation: In this sentence, the verbs are in the past simple tense because the actions occurred in a sequence in the past. "The day was cold and it was raining" sets the scene. "When I reached home, my raincoat was all wet" describes a completed action. "I took it off, shook the water off it, hung it up and went into the living-room" lists actions that happened one after another. "My children were playing on the carpet" uses the past continuous tense to describe an ongoing action that was happening when another action occurred. "When they saw me, they jumped up and ran up to me" again uses the past simple tense for actions that happened in sequence.

1. I have heard this song several times already, but I cannot remember the words. I will write them down as soon as I hear this song again.

Explanation: "I have heard this song several times already" uses the present perfect tense to indicate an action that has occurred multiple times up to the present. "I cannot remember the words" is in the present simple tense to describe a current state. "I will write them down as soon as I hear this song again" uses the future simple tense ("will write") and the present simple tense ("hear") to describe a future action that will happen when another future action occurs.

1. Hardly had he opened the suit-case, when he found the tie which he thought he had lost long before.

Explanation: "Hardly had he opened the suit-case" uses the past perfect tense in a negative inversion structure to emphasize that one action happened almost immediately after another. "When he found the tie" uses the past simple tense to describe a completed action. "Which he thought he had lost long before" uses the past perfect tense to describe an action that was completed before another past action.

1. Shut the door! The room is full of smells which are coming from the kitchen. Mother does not like kitchen smells in the room.

Explanation: "Shut the door!" is an imperative sentence giving a command. "The room is full of smells which are coming from the kitchen" uses the present simple tense ("is full") to describe a current state and the present continuous tense ("are coming") to describe an ongoing action. "Mother does not like kitchen smells in the room" uses the present simple tense to describe a general truth or habitual action.

1. Last night he finished the book which he had begun writing a year ago.

Explanation: "Last night he finished the book" uses the past simple tense to describe a completed action. "Which he had begun writing a year ago" uses the past perfect tense to indicate that the action of beginning the book happened before the action of finishing it.

1. He said he had been listening to the same stories for a long time.

Explanation: "He said" uses the past simple tense to introduce reported speech. "He had been listening to the same stories for a long time" uses the past perfect continuous tense to describe an action that started in the past and continued up to another point in the past.

1. By the evening he had translated ten pages.

Explanation: "By the evening" indicates a specific point in time. "He had translated ten pages" uses the past perfect tense to describe an action that was completed before that specific point in time.

1. Have you ever been to the new stadium? — Yes, I was there last Saturday.

Explanation: "Have you ever been to the new stadium?" uses the present perfect tense to ask about any experience up to the present. "Yes, I was there last Saturday" uses the past simple tense to describe a specific event in the past.

1. The old lady was happy: she had not seen her son for three years.

Explanation: "The old lady was happy" uses the past simple tense to describe a past state. "She had not seen her son for three years" uses the past perfect tense to describe an action (or lack of action) that had been true up to a point in the past.

1. What did you do yesterday?

Explanation: "What did you do yesterday?" uses the past simple tense to ask about actions completed in the past.

1. How many pages have you translated for today?

Explanation: "How many pages have you translated for today?" uses the present perfect tense to ask about an action completed up to the present moment in relation to today.

1. The day was cold and it was raining. When I reached home, my raincoat was all wet. I took it off, shook the water off it, hung it up and went into the living-room. My children were playing on the carpet. When they saw me, they jumped up and ran up to me.
2. I have heard this song several times already, but I cannot remember the words. I will write them down as soon as I hear this song again.
3. Hardly had he opened the suit-case, when he found the tie which he thought he had lost long before.
4. Shut the door! The room is full of smells which are coming from the kitchen. Mother does not like kitchen smells in the room.
5. Last night he finished the book which he had begun writing a year ago.
6. He said he had been listening to the same stories for a long time.
7. By the evening he had translated ten pages.
8. Have you ever been to the new stadium? — Yes, I was there last Saturday.
9. The old lady was happy: she had not seen her son for three years.
10. What did you do yesterday?
11. How many pages have you translated for today?