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Narrative Tenses IV

The document provides examples of verbs that are rarely used in the continuous form, including verbs of the mind, emotions, possession, and other examples. It then provides two exercises for the reader to practice using verbs in the simple past, past continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous tenses.

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Narrative Tenses IV

The document provides examples of verbs that are rarely used in the continuous form, including verbs of the mind, emotions, possession, and other examples. It then provides two exercises for the reader to practice using verbs in the simple past, past continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous tenses.

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BE CAREFUL Some verbs are rarely used in the continuous form.

Verbs of the mind: know / understand / believe / think / want / mean /


Verbs of emotions: love / hate / like / prefer / care
Verbs of possession: have / own / belong
Other verbs: cost / need / contain / depend

EXERCISE ONE Underline the correct option

1-When I arrived at the party I saw Tim had drunk/had been drinking too much.
2-I had been having/was having a shower when suddenly the phone rang.
3-As soon as Peter arrived in the office, his boss started/had started to shout at him.
4-Mary was sweating. She had run/had been running for about two hours.
5-While she had/was having dinner the doorbell was ringing/rang. It was her best friend.
6- She had a headache last night. She was watching/had been watching too much television.
7-I was breaking/broke up with my boyfriend after the party. He was/was being very upset.
8-While I was making/made a cup of tea Michael arrived so I offered him one.
9-When I phoned Tony his mother told me he had been/had gone out and asked me to call back later.
10-My sister was very upset when she came/was coming back from school. She had been failing/had
failed the history exam.
EXERCISE TWO

Fill the gaps of the following story using the correct for of the verbs: past simple,
past continuous, past perfect simple or past perfect continuous.

Last Monday a very funny thing __________ (happen) to me. Well, it __________
(not be) so funny when it happened but now I can’t help smiling when I think about it.
I _________ (get up) at 7 o’clock in the morning, as usual. I was very
tired that Monday because I _____________ (be) to a party on
Sunday night and it _____________ (finish) very late. After getting
up, I ________ (have) a shower and I _________ (make) myself a cup
of coffee. I _____________ (not have) anything to eat because I
__________ (not be) hungry. Afterwards I ________ (brush) my
teeth, combed my hair, ________ (take) my coat and my purse and
__________ (leave) the house.
As I ______________ (walk) to the bus stop, it surprised me to see the streets
_________ (be) very quiet. No traffic jams and no crowds rushing to work or school.
When I _________ (arrive) at the bus stop only one person
__________
(wait) for the bus. I waited for longer than usual. In fact,
when the bus _______(come) I ________________(wait)
for more than twenty minutes.
When I ________ (get) off the bus, I crossed the road and
__________ (go) into the building. Again I _______ (be) shocked to see there was
nobody there.
I ________ (take) the lift and finally arrived in the office. I
________ (try) to get in but I _______ (not can. I __________
(not know) what to do so I ________ (take) the lift and went down
again. In the hall I _________ (see) Bill, the porter.
-Good morning, Bill. What’s the matter today? I ____________ (just
be) upstairs and there’s nobody at the office. The building is very quiet and the
office is closed.
What’s going on?
-Good morning, miss Parker –said Bill smiling- ________________ (not notice) it’s
Easter Monday today?
-Oh my God! Now I understand why the streets _______ (be) so empty, why
there______ (be) no traffic and why the office was locked!
I ______ (go) back home. I ______________ (get up) so early for nothing. As
soon as I _________ (arrive) I __________ (go) back to bed.

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