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Question 1:
We ________ (to walk) in the park when the rain (to start). There _______ (to be) no place to hide nearby. So we _______ (to get) cold that day.
A. were walking / had started / was / got
B. were walking / started / was / got
Feedback 1,2. To describe the situation when one action was in progress and the second one interrupted it we use two tenses: the Past Continuous for the longer action and the Past Simple for the shorter one. 3,4 We use the Past Simple to talk about short simple actions which were finished in the past.
C. walked / were starting / was / had got
D. were walking / was starting / had been / got

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Test 3-Past Tenses | Upper-Intermediate English