Which tense is correct?
Tom walked / was walking home when someone called / was calling out his name
Tom was walking home when someone called out his name.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
When she was getting home: her husband was watching football on television.
Wrong
When she got home: her husband was watching football on television.
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Which tense is correct?
When John phoned / was phoning, I wrote / was writing an essay. I finished / was finishing it at midnight.
When John phoned , I was writing an essay. I finished it at midnight.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
As soon as she was seeing the time, she was jumping out of bed.
Wrong
As soon as she saw the time, she jumped out of bed.
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Which tense: Past simple or Past continuous?
While we ______ (wait) for the guests to arrive, Sally ______ (ring) to say she couldn't come.
While we were waiting for the guests to arrive, Sally rang to say she couldn't come.
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Which tense: Past simple or Past continuous?
When he ______ (arrive)at the party, everyone ______ (talk) and ______ (laugh).
When he arrived at the party, everyone was talking and laughing.
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Which tense is correct?
Sam's friends had already gone / had already been going by the time he got / was getting there.
Sam's friends had already gone by the time he got there.
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Which tense: Past perfect simple or Past perfect continuous?
When the helicopter finally found us, we ____ (sit) in the lifeboat for hours and ____ (eat) all our food.
When the helicopter finally found us, we had been sitting in the lifeboat for hours and had eaten all our food.
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Which tense is correct?
As soon as Cathy shut the car door, she realised /was realising she had left /had been leaving the keys inside.
As soon as Cathy shut the car door, she realised she had left the keys inside.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
Tom was exhausted because he'd been working too hard.
Correct
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Which tense is correct?
They waited / were waiting until everybody had left /had been leaving the bank and then they broke in / were breaking in through the window.
They waited until everybody had left the bank and then they broke in through the window.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
By the time the emergency food supplies arrived, 30 people had been dying.
By the time the emergency food supplies arrived, 30 people had died
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
Before the accident he'd never been thinking anything like this would happen to him.
Wrong
Before the accident he'd never thought anything like this would happen to him.
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What's the difference between these two sentences?
a He'd been trying to phone her before she left the country.
b He'd tried to phone her before she left the country.
In sentence a, he had tried to phone her more than once/repeatedly.
In sentence b, he had tried to phone her once.
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Which tense is correct?
He is working / has been working there since he left / was leaving university.
He has been working there since he left university.
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Which tense is correct?
He is playing / has been playing tennis since he started/ was starting school.
He has been playing tennis since he started school.
