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r-''5 We don't usually use state verbs in continuous tenses: When I met her, she
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29a Complete the sentences. Use the past simple or past continuous of the verbs in
brackets.
o Sarah wasn't here in June. She .....Y.?.1.!19y.9.!!!!.9...... round Europe. (travet)
r This time last year we .. that big concert. (ptan)
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.. some of the objects. (take, draw)
3 The police .. his story. (not believe)
4 lt was eight o'clock in the morning. I was still in bed and my brother
.......'.......... ready for school. (get)
5 | didn't eat anything for lunch because | .............. ... the food in the
cafeteria. (not like)
6 We .. anything at ten. We were really tired. (not do)
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Grammar: post tenses iii,i$I I
A: Were you and Mark practising I Did you and Mark practise your songs when
I catled?
B: No. Mark wasn't here.
A: How were you feeling I did you feelwhen you passed your driving test?
B: lncredibly pleased!
A: Were people dancing I Did people donce when you got to the party?
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?9c Complete the e-mail. Use the past simple or past continuous of the verbs in
brackets.
r,iiti We use the past simpte and the past continuous with when and as/while to talk
about a past action or event that was interrupted. Notice when we use a comma:
They arrived while we were having dinner. While we were hoving dinner, they
orrived. We were haujng dinner when they arrived. When they arrived, we were
having dinner.
Sometimes we can use either the past simple or the past continuous, depending
on what we want to emphasise. Compare: l lived there for five years. (l don't [ive
there now.) I was living there for five years. (This emphasises that my residence
there was temporary/the period of time | lived there.)
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were relnxingrn the garden.My nrother (2) read / was reading a book and my
uncle (3) dozed / tuas dttzirtg peacefully in the sun.'We children (4) looked / u,ere
looking for worns and insecti.end then he (5) arriuecl / ruas arriuing.He was a
handsome man with piercing eyes and he (6) ktoked / was looking straight at my
mother. Her face (7) went / was ,goirry paIe.
'Arthur, I (B) tlrcu.ght / u,as tlinkhry you were dead!'she said.
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Grammar: post tenses
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Jussi and | (g) met I were meeting white we (ro) lived f were livingin d
London. lGi rented I wosrenting a room in a house in North London and he
$z) stayed I was staying with friends who'd offered to put him up. We both
G) had I were having temporary jobs - at one time he $4) waited I was
(t)
waiting on tables in a caf6 and | washed I was washing dishes in a small
restaurant. Anyway, we (16) got on I were getting on really well and before
long we G) planned I were planning to go on a long holiday together. That
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-,.--,* (t8) was I was being before the accident.
H4# Complete the extract from a story. Use the past simple or continuous of the verbs
in brackets. Sometimes both tenses are possibte.
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Verbs
Practice
10a put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or past continuous.
Here he ' (be), Davey Stark, the big rock star. It (be) the
end of an exhausting two-hour concert. The fans (scream)
and n. ..... [shout). They fwant) Davey, their
hero. His face [pour) with sweat, his hair'
(drip) and his heart [thump) violently. But he
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(love) these moments at the end of a concert. He always
(feel) powerful and in control. He "
(decide) to do one more song for the crowd: one of his most popular. When he
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Verbs
10b put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or past continuous.
2 A: I's... .... (phone) you at about 9 o'clock this morning but you
.. (not answer). What .. (you/do)?
B: Well, I '8... .... (hear) the phone but I
(have) a shower and I .. (can not) get out in time to answer
it. Anyway, what .. (you/want)?
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Verbs
A: Well, last nightI". ...... (clear out) that old desk you
.. (give) me when I'0... .... [come across) a
pile of old letters with a red ribbon round them.
B: My letters?
A: Yes, they .. (be addressed) to you. And they
.. (al\/smell) of perfume, a man's perfume.
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