narrative tenses

This tense is used to express actions that happened before other actions in the past.

• past simple

• past progressive

• past perfect simple

• past perfect progressive

This tense is used to express two or more actions happening at the same time in a certain moment in the past.

• past simple

• past progressive

• past perfect simple

• past perfect progressive

This tense is used to express continuous actions and emphasize that they were in progress before another moment in the past.

• past simple

• past progressive

• past perfect simple

• past perfect progressive

This tense is used to express ideas in the past, considering the exact order they happened.

• past simple

• past progressive

• past perfect simple

• past perfect progressive

Julie................. for hours and felt exhausted when she suddenly noticed that the sun .................... in the sky.

• had been walking / was sinking

• was walking / was sinking

• walked / sink

• was walk / had been sinking

She ..................track of time because she .................... about the most important decision she'd ever had to make in her life.

• lost / thought

• had lost / had thought

• had lost / had been thinking

• had been losing / was thinking

Things.............the same between Julie and her fiance, David, since he accepted a job in Paris. They ................. each other for almost five years, and in that time, they had never argued much.

• didn´t / had known

• weren´t / had been knowing

• had not been / knew

• hadn´t been / had known

For the first time, she .................she .................... ready for marriage.
And with the wedding only twenty days away, she ...................... to make up her mind soon.

• feeling/ had been / had needed

• had felt / was / had been needing

• was feeling / were / needed

• felt / was / needed

Everything in Julie’s life ................well until her world ...................... apart just a month earlier when a large company ............... David, a management position that would require him to move to France. 

• had gone / fell / had offered

• was going / was falling / was offering

• went / fell / offered

Everything in Julie’s life ................well until her world ...................... apart just a month earlier when a large company ............... David, a management position that would require him to move to France. 

• had gone / fell / had offered

• was going / was falling / was offering

• went / fell / offered