I. WRITE THE CORRECT TENSE, PAST PERFECT or PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE. (18 pts)

1. They for hours by then. (hike)

2. Linda ever (fly) before her flight last week?

3. The waiter served something that we (not / order)

4. How long you the flat before you said it ( own).

5. My shoes were dirty because I in the garden (work).

6. She to drive for six years but she still failed her driving test (learn).

7. I for two hours so I took a break (study).

8. She around the world since 2013. (travel)

9. the same car for ten years? (he, drive)

Read the passage. (1) the first skateboard was constructed of old roller-skate wheels attached to a piece of wood. (2) improvements were made to the skateboard in 1959. (3) the year that the first commercially made skateboard appeared. (4) soon after, skateboarding began to grow in popularity. (5) in 1963, skateboard manufacturers formed the first professional skateboarding team. (6) that same year, the first organized skateboard competition took place, in california. which is the most effective way to correct the fragment in sentence 3? attach the fragment to sentence 4. attach the fragment to sentence 2. insert the phrase in the united states to the end of the fragment. insert the verb had before the verb appeared.