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Identify Past tenses and match them to the correct description A 1 She was talking on the phone when her child came in.
2 Sam was in hospital because he had crashed his car.
3 They were tired. They had been studying hard all morning.
4 I was cooking lunch while my dad was pouring the drinks.
5 We had been living in the house for a year before we decorated the kitchen. 6 Princess Diana did a lot of work for charity.
7 At two o’clock this afternoon they were having lunch in the caf?.
8 First, she knocked on the door. Then, she went inside.
9 We had booked the tickets before we went to the theatre.
B actions which
a- tell about people no longer alive;
b- happened before another past action or by a stated time in the past;
c- happened immediately one after the other;
d- put emphasis on the duration of a past action which started and finished before
another past action;
e- were in progress at a stated time in the past;
f- were simultaneous (two or more actions at the same time);
g- were in progress when they were interrupted by another one;
h- lasted for some time in the past, whose result was visible in the past; i- finished in the past and whose result was visible in the past.

Answer 1

1 - Past continuous (e) - an action that was in progress at a stated time in the past, interrupted by another one.
2 - Past perfect (h) - an action that lasted for some time in the past, whose result was visible in the past.
3 - Past perfect continuous (d) - put emphasis on the duration of a past action which started and finished before another past action.
4 - Past continuous (c) - actions which were simultaneous (two or more actions at the same time).
5 - Past perfect (h) - an action that lasted for some time in the past, whose result was visible in the past.
6 - Simple past (a) - tell about people no longer alive.
7 - Past continuous (f) - were simultaneous (two or more actions at the same time).
8 - Past simple (g) - were in progress when they were interrupted by another one.
9 - Past perfect (b) - happened before another past action or by