Narrative Tenses

That yellow sheet meant that they ... quarantined.

• were just

• were just being

• had just been

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Five days later, Mr Clark was at the docks. He ... the house and now he ... their ship leave to the United States without him or his family.

• left, had watched

• was leaving, watched

• had left, was watching

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

When the ship ... over the horizon, he ... and ... back home, crying.

• disappeared, had stood up, was going

• was disappearing, stood up, had gone

• had disappeared, stood up, went

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

A few days later, the tragic news spread throughout Scotland - the mighty Titanic 20 ... taking hundreds of lives with it.

• sank

• was sinking

• had sunk

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

We use ... to tell stories about what happened in the past. The most important ... are: past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple, and past perfect continuous.

• narrative tenses; narrative tenses

• past simple; past continuous

• past perfect simple; past perfect continuous

• past tenses; present tenses

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

It was getting late and Eric LeMarque decided to have one final run on his snowboard. As he ... down the mountain, he came across a thick fog and headed in the wrong direction.

• 'd gone

• was going

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

It was getting late and Eric LeMarque decided to have one final run on his snowboard. As he was going down the mountain, he ... across a thick fog and headed in the wrong direction.

• came

• was coming

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

On the eighth day Eric was seen by a helicopter that ... for him. He was completely exhausted but alive.

• had searched

• had been searching

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

A farmer couldn't believe what he saw when he came across a stranger living on his farm. The man, Ricky Megee ... off the land in the Australian bush for two months.

• lived

• had been living

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Ricky ... near the border of Western Australia and Northern Territory. He stopped to help some people whose car had been broken down and offered them a lift to a nearby town.

• had been driving

• had driven

• was driving

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D