Match the tenses in bold to their uses. Give more examples.
1 He picked up his jacket, locked the door and left.
2 I was cleaning the attic when I came across my first diary.
3 Shakespeare wrote Hamlet around 1600.
4 When he was young, he rode his bike to work every day.
5 I was watching TV while they were cooking dinner.
a complete action or event which happened at a stated time in the past b past actions which happened one after another c past action in progress interrupted by another past action d two or more simultaneous past actions e past habit or state
- Picked up, locked, left перечисляют законченные действия одно за другим: b.
- Was cleaning — длительное действие, которое прервал короткий эпизод came across: c.
- «Around
» указывает время законченного события wrote: a. - «Every day» вместе с «when he was young» описывает прежнюю привычку: e.
- Два Past Continuous с while обозначают одновременные действия: d. Дополнительные примеры строим по тем же признакам: yesterday для законченного действия, while/when для пересечения событий, every day для привычки.
