Mixed Past Tenses (English Grammar Exercise)

Siobhán has had a strange morning.

Fill in the gaps in her story with the correct past tense.

• I -- select --woke upwas waking uphad woken uphad been waking up at 6am this morning because there was an odd noise.

For some reason, my neighbour, Bill, -- select --mowedwas mowinghad mownhad been mowing the lawn!

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I -- select --wentwas goinghad gonehad been going outside to ask him to stop,

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but when I started talking to him, it was like he -- select --couldn’thadn’t been able tocan'tdoesn't hear me.

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I realised he -- select --sleepwalkedwas sleepwalkinghad sleepwalkedhad been sleepwalking !

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After a while, his wife -- select --camewas comingcomehad been coming outside to see what was happening.

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She explained that this wasn’t the first time. He -- select --sleepwalkedwas sleepwalkinghad sleepwalkedhad been sleepwalking last week and made a pizza from scratch!

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I -- select --decidedwas decidinghad decidedhad been deciding to let his wife solve the problem and went back to bed.

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I woke up three hours later and realised that I -- select --missedwas missinghad missedhad been missing my train to work!

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My boss was very angry when I arrived at the office late. She -- select --waitedis waitinghas waitedhad been waiting for me for twenty minutes.

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