This document provides 10 sentences with verbs in brackets that need to be changed to the past tense. The summary completes this task of changing the verbs in brackets to the past tense in 3 sentences or less.

1. Fill in each blank by putting the verb in (brackets) into the correct past
tense.
1 I ………………………………………(see) my first baseball game when I
……………………………………(live) in New York.
2 How many pints of beer ……………………………………(he/drink) before he
………………………………….(leave) the pub?
3 It ………………………………………………..(rain) so we
………………………………….(decide) to stay at home all afternoon.
4 By the time I ……………………………………………..(leave) university I
……………………………….(be) to France fifteen times.
5 What ………………………………………………..(you/do) at the time the
murder was committed?
6 When we ……………………(get) home we saw that someone
………………………..(break) in to steal the DVD recorder.
7 He ………………………………..(send) to prison four times before he
…………………………………..(decide) that it would be better to go straight.
8 I didn't realise I ……………………(lose) my credit cards until I
………………………..(try) to pay for dinner at the restaurant.
9 I …………………………………(write) an email to my sister when
she ………………………….(ring) me.
10 She was so upset by the news that she
……………………………(drop) her tea
and………………………………(start) crying.