Complete the sentences:

#1. Usually, when people asked me how things were going I'd say "okay", but at that time (……)

1. I had the story of the mysterious Christmas card to tell.

2. I have the story of the mysterious Christmas card to tell.

3. I will have the story of the mysterious Christmas card to tell.

#2. Finally, I had told everyone I knew the story and even to myself it (……)

1. will not seem interesting anymore.

2. has not seem interesting anymore.

3. didn't seem interesting anymore.

#3. It was less than a week before Christmas and things at the office (……)

1. were getting crazy.

2. have been getting crazy.

3. would be getting crazy.

#4. That entire week, I didn't get out of work until eight o'clock, and (……)

1. by the time I got back to my studio apartment, I will not have the strength to do anything except stretch out on the couch, watch movies and eat Chinese food.

2. by the time I got back to my studio apartment, I didn't have the strength to do anything except stretch out on the couch, watch movies and eat Chinese food.

3. by the time I get back to my studio apartment, I didn't have the strength to do anything except stretch out on the couch, watch movies and eat Chinese food.

#5. Then, one night when there was nothing interesting on TV, (……)

1. I started staring at the Christmas card, which I will displayed on my kitchen table.

2. I started staring at the Christmas card, which I had displayed on my kitchen table.

3. I started staring at the Christmas card, which I had been displayed on my kitchen table.

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Complete the sentences:

#1. Then I started thinking about last Christmas,

1. when things has been so different.

2. when things was so different.

3. when things had been so different.

#2. It was the only card (……)

1. I had gotten.

2. I have gotten.

3. I had been gotten.

#3. My mother died four years ago and my father (……)

1. had a stroke a year ago last Easter.

2. had a break a year ago last Easter.

3. had a struck a year ago last Easter.

#4. Now he was living in a nursing home where he (……)

1. was forced move twice a day to avoid bed sores.

2. was forced to move twice a day to avoid bed sores.

3. was made move twice a day to avoid bed sores.

#5. Barbara, my girlfriend of five years, broke up with me last summer and I (……)

1. hadn't dated anyone since.

2. haven’t dated anyone since.

3. didn’t dated anyone since.

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Complete the sentences:

#1. Although I still had a few friends from high school and college, (……)

1. I rarely saw them no more.

2. I rarely saw them some more.

3. I rarely saw them anymore.

#2. That night, it was Friday, (……)

1. I had trouble falling asleep.

2. I had trouble fallen asleep.

3. I had trouble being fallen asleep.

#3. I lay in bed, replaying each year of my life, trying to figure out (……)

1. how I know "Jennifer" or "Paul."

2. how I have known "Jennifer" or "Paul."

3. how I knew "Jennifer" or "Paul."

#4. I tried to remember every kid in Wayne, New Jersey, (……)

1. from high school through kindergarten.

2. from high school over kindergarten.

3. from high school below kindergarten.

#5. I even thought (……)

1. about all my extra-curricular activities, boy scouts, little league, day camp.

2. about all my inter-curricular activities, boy scouts, little league, day camp.

3. about all my intra-curricular activities, boy scouts, little league, day camp.

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