Narrative Tenses

I couldn’t walk properly because I had damaged/ was damaging my knee the previous day.

Choose the sentence with the past continuous

Which sentence correctly combines past simple and past perfect?

The past perfect is always used when the word ‘before’ is in a sentence

When I got to the airport, I realised I left/ I’d left my passport at home

The past perfect tense is used to show the earlier of two past actions

The sentence ‘She left before we arrived’ contains past perfect

We use the past simple to give the background information for a story.

We use while and as when we have two past simple actions

Identify the sentence with past perfect

I couldn’t get into my flat because I had forgotten/ was forgetting my keys

Jack was very surprised when he saw that I painted/ had painted the living room pink

We were sitting/ had sat on the balcony and enjoying the view of the lake

The sentence ‘I was watching TV when he called’ uses both p.s and p.c correctly

I looked/was looking through some old photographs and I found/was finding the one of you at university

He was going/ had gone so fast down the ski slope that he crashed into the restaurant

Which sentence uses the past simple correctly?

I had never been/ was never going to Egypt before, so I was really excited to see the Pyramids

When it is already clear which past action came first, we can use past simple for both actions instead of past perfect

Our train was cancelled, so we were waiting/ had waited for the next one to arrive

The past continuous tense describes two actions that happened one after the other

Fabio was cycling/cycled to work when he fell/had fallen off his bike

Which sentence is incorrect?