Narrative tenses

Narrative tenses include all past tenses

• True

• False

This happened about ten years ago. I _______________ with a college friend, Sarah, in the country, when...

• was staying

• stayed

• had stayed

• have been staying

He____________ (walk) for only a few minutes, when it suddenly __________(occur) to him...

They ____________ an old country house a few miles from Cambridge.

• recently bought

• have recently bought

• had recently bought

• had been buying

When I...... all the children...... to bed.

• was arriving/went

• arrived/had gone

• had arrived/were going

• had been arriving/had been going

I...... a shower when the phone......

• had/was ringing

• had had/had been ringing

• was having/rang

• had been having/had rang

The dinosaurs...... 5 million years ago.

• had been extinguing

• was extinguing

• had extingued

• extingued

Tick the time conjunctions:

• By the time

• While

• Although

• Aa

To describe the background and create an atmosphere, we use...

• Past perfect continuous

• Past continuous

• Past simple

• Past perfect

We use before and after to talk about the order of events in the past or future.

• True

• False