Practice · C1 Advanced

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Narrative tenses for experience, incl. passive.

Fill blanks, build sentences, sort words, hunt mistakes — submit and get detailed feedback on every answer.

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5 exercises

  1. Fill in the blankUp next

    Exercise 1 of 5 · 12 blanks

    Travel Tales - Unexpected Events and Turning Points

    This is a fill-in-the-blank exercise. 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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  2. Fill in the blank

    Exercise 2 · 12 blanks

    Workplace Wonders - Personal Experiences and Memories

    This is a fill-in-the-blank exercise. 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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  3. Build the sentence

    Exercise 3 · 10 sentences

    Build Narrative Focus and Time Shifts

    Tap the words in the correct order to build each narrative sentence. One extra word does not belong.

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  4. Build the sentence

    Exercise 4 · 10 sentences

    Build Narrative Passives and Combined Sequences

    Tap the words in the correct order to build each natural narrative sentence. One extra word does not belong.

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  5. Find the mistake

    Exercise 5 · 11 corrections

    Find and Fix Narrative Time and Focus

    One word in each sentence is wrong. Tap it, then choose the correction that makes the narrative sequence or focus accurate.

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About this practice

Put Narrative tenses for experience, incl. passive into practice with 5 interactive fill-in-the-blank, sentence-building, and error-correction exercises at C1 (Advanced) level. Submit each exercise to get detailed feedback, see the correct answer in context, and build confidence in real sentences. Retry any exercise as many times as you like. Want the rules first? Back to the lesson.

  • Fill-in-the-blank questions with multiple-choice answers
  • Sentence-building questions: tap the words into the correct order
  • Error-correction questions: spot the wrong word, then choose the fix
  • Feedback after submission