An interruption at work · Combining common past forms

Combining common past forms in context, with bilingual examples and practice.

Application goal: Combining common past forms.

Use the past simple for a finished event at a past time. Many verbs add ed; irregular forms such as go → went need to be learned.

Context: An interruption at work. Identify the wording that achieves this goal, then adapt the details to a situation of your own.

Practical examples

An engineer checked the problem and replaced a part.

فحص مهندس المشكلة واستبدل قطعة.

The lights came on again after twenty minutes.

عادت الأضواء إلى العمل بعد عشرين دقيقة.

We thanked the engineer and finished our meeting.

شكرنا المهندس وأنهينا اجتماعنا.

Check your understanding

1. Choose the closest Arabic meaning of this expression: An engineer checked the problem and replaced a part.
2. Choose the English expression that matches this meaning: شكرنا المهندس وأنهينا اجتماعنا.