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The key answer of exercise Grammar 1-4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Grammar focus 1 for the textbook Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Araminta Crace from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the verbs in bold in the sentences below. Which ones are the Past simple and which ones are the Past continuous?
  2. In each sentence, which of the actions in bold started first?
  3. Choose the correct tense to complete the rules.
  4. Look at the sentences again. What three time words can you find?

Answer

  1. Past simple: felt, started, flew; Past continuous: was walking, was standing, were waiting
  2. the Past continuous action
  3. 1 Past continuous; 2 Past simple
  4. when, as, while