Question

Put the verbs into the past simple.

1. Does his mistake cost the company a lot of money?
2. He doesn't bring his laptop with him.
3. We beat last year's sales figures.
4. The journey takes three hours.
5. The students seek advice from a careers advisor.
6. I don't tell him to take the day off.
7. We run out of good ideas.
8. She puts the sensitive reports in the shredder.
9. He swears never to use that supplier again.
10. I split the presentation into three parts.
11. They don't build the new business park.
12. She doesn't fly to Los Angeles.
13. We hold an urgent meeting.
14. Do they buy a stake in the company?
15. We think about buying our competitor

Answer 1

1. Did his mistake cost the company a lot of money?

2. He didn't bring his laptop with him.

3. We beated last year's sales figures.

4. The journey took three hours.

5.  The students seeked advice from a careers advisor.

6. I didn't tell him to take the day off.

7. We ran out of good ideas.

8. She put the sensitive reports in the shredder.

9.  He sweared never to use that supplier again.

10. I splitted the presentation into three parts.

11. They didn't build the new business park. (last month)

12. She didn't fly to Los Angeles. (last week)

13. We held an urgent meeting. (5 minutes ago)

14. Did they buy a stake in the company?

15. We thought about buying our competitor (yesterday (ибо для паст симпла  нужен маркер времени, но не везде)