Thanksgiving

Last Thanksgiving my parents had a large family dinner at their house. Getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner takes a lot of work. The day started well and by late afternoon we had completed most of the work. Everyone had helped to make the meal a success. We had put the turkey in the oven earlier that day so the house was starting to smell like roast turkey. The grandchildren had finished setting the table for Thanksgiving dinner. My aunt had made two pies for dessert, a pumpkin pie and an apple pie. My brother and I had peeled the carrots and the potatoes. We had just turned on the stove to start cooking the vegetables when the power went out! The oven stopped working! We couldn’t cook the vegetables! The turkey wouldn’t finish cooking! We waited. We talked. We went for a walk. We had waited two hours by the time the power came back on. We had almost given up hope. Dinner was late that night but it was a Thanksgiving dinner that we won’t forget.

Answer True or False to the questions based on the text.

Question 1

1. The word "had" is used as a verb in the past perfect tense.

Question 2

2. Use the past participle of the main verb when making the past perfect. 

Question 3

3. The sentence "My aunt made two apple pies for dessert" represents the past perfect tense. 

Question 4

4. The sentence "The power hadn´t gone out when they arrived" is an example of a negative sentence in past perfect. 

Question 5

5. We had waited two hours by the time the power came back on. Is it correct?

Complete the information based on the reading without checking the text.

6. It was two before the power came back on.

 

7. My brother and I had the vegetables for dinner.

 

8. Everyone had to make the meal a success.

 

9. By late afternoon we completed most of the work.

 

10. For Thanksgiving dinner we had and vegetables and then we had pie for .

 

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