Past Simple / Continuous / Perfect — The Language She Chose to Keep
Grammar: Embedded Questions
Free ESL grammar exercise on past simple / continuous / perfect themed around the language she chose to keep. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on culture, practising embedded questions. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Ní Dhomhnaill was spending her early childhood in the Kerry Gaeltacht while her aunts were raising her. By the time she left for university, English had become dominant.
Grammar: Embedded Questions
- Past simple
- She switched back to Irish in her twenties. — single completed action at a known past time
- Past continuous
- English was pulling at her while she studied in Cork. — ongoing backdrop to a narrative
Sample items
- By the time the family ______ (emigrate) to England, the children had already stopped speaking Irish at home.
- While Ní Dhomhnaill ______ (study) in Cork, she was still writing her early poetry in English.
- She ______ (not / realise) how much the language meant to her until she tried writing in it again.
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