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Grammar Exercise on the Text

Simple Past

We use the simple past for situations and actions in the past. For further information, check out our grammar section: Simple Past.

Write the verbs in simple past.

1. The University of Oxford (be) the first British university.
2. The lecturers of the colleges (speak) a very clear English.
3. That's why Oxford English (become) known as the English of educated people.
4. In the 19th century, Lewis Carroll (write) 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' in Oxford.
5. Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) (study) electrical engineering at Oxford.

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