Question 1
I _____ my phone at home and missed an important call from my boss.
Options: left, was leaving, leave
Small Mistakes, Big Problems
Fill in the blanks with the correct past simple form. Click on each blank and choose the correct answer from the dropdown. Some sentences may have more than one blank, so make sure you complete all of them.
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Question 2
Did you _____ to save your work before the computer crashed?
Options: remembered, remembering, remember
Question 3
She _____ her presentation on the train and had to start again from scratch.
Options: lose, lost, was losing
Question 4
We _____ the meeting time and arrived an hour late.
Options: forgot, forget, was forgetting
Question 5
I _____ the deadline was today.
Options: don't know, didn't know, wasn't knowing
Question 6
Why _____ you _____ the instructions before starting the machine?
Options: didn't, don't, did, reading, read, reads
Question 7
The technician _____ the wrong button and deleted all the data.
Options: was pressing, press, pressed
Question 8
They _____ enough copies for the meeting, so some people had to share.
Options: didn't make, were making, made
Question 9
He _____ his colleague's lunch from the fridge by accident.
Options: was taking, took, take
Question 10
Did the company _____ you about the policy change before it happened?
Options: inform, informed, informing
Practise Small Mistakes, Big Problems with this interactive fill-in-the-blank exercise of 10 questions. Choose the option that correctly completes each sentence, then submit to check your answers and get instant feedback on every choice.
Practising grammar in real sentences — rather than memorising rules in isolation — is one of the most effective ways to make a structure stick. You can retry as many times as you like to build accuracy and confidence using Small Mistakes, Big Problems in everyday English.
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