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Past Tenses Practice (Past Simple, Continuous & Perfect) – Action Story Grammar Exercise

Choose the correct form

1. When the Director WATCHED / WAS WATCHING Eve’s training session, she realized that the young girl HAD ALREADY DEVELOPED / ALREADY DEVELOPED a lethal technique.

2. Rooney WOKE UP / WAS WAKING UP in the middle of the night and GRABBED / WAS GRABBING her knife. Someone WAS CLIMBING / CLIMBED through her balcony window!

3. Unfortunately, the Ruska Roma assassins ARRIVED / WERE ARRIVING at the safehouse at midnight, and found that their target HAD ESCAPED / ESCAPED minutes before.

4. The underground doctors TRIED / HAD BEEN TRYING their best to save the hitman, but while they WERE OPERATING / OPERATED, the patient DIED / WAS DYING.

5. Eve realized she HAD MADE / WAS MAKING a mistake. She HAD BEEN STALKING / STALKED the wrong double for an hour.

6. On the night of the vendetta, the Continental concierge HAD JUST FINISHED / JUST FINISHED a long shift, and HADN'T HAD / DIDN'T HAVE any rest for 30 hours.

7. "I'm sorry I DIDN'T ANSWER / WASN'T ANSWERING the radio earlier. I WAS FIGHTING / HAD BEEN FIGHTING three guards in the hallway."

8. The office the High Table member was visiting was on the top floor, and because the elevator HADN'T BEEN WORKING / WASN'T WORKING, Rooney WAS / HAD BEEN exhausted by the time she reached the stairs.

9. When the ballerina LOOKED / WAS LOOKING out of the theater window, she saw it HAD BEEN SNOWING / SNOWED, and the New York streets were covered in white.

10. After the two assassins LANDED / WERE LANDING at the private airstrip, they got into a car that HAD BEEN WAITING / WAS WAITING for them since sunset.