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EX.6.
Past Continuous - to describe a (background) even in progress around the time of
a main event
Past Simple - to describe the main events in sequence, i.e. one after another
Past Perfect Simple - to refer to an action that happened earlier, i.e. not in the
main sequence of events.
Past Perfect Continuous - to describe an action in progress before or up to the
main event (s) in the past.
EX.7.
Steve Winter and Douglas Chadwick, who were working in Kaziranga National
Park, had three close encounters with rhinos all on the same day. Before entering
the park, their guide had told them not to be afraid, so they weren’t especially
worried, but clearly the incidents shocked them. They knew that filming in the
Park was dangerous work, but they hadn’t expected to meet danger so soon or so
frequently. But it didn’t stop them carrying on!
EX.9.
THE NEAR MISS
I was mountain-biking with a friend
with Wales and we had just finished
a long off-road climb out of the Dysynni
Valley, it had been raining earlier but
now the sun was shining and we were
feeling quite warm. Since the rest of the
route was downhill on tarmac roads,
I took off my bike helmet and set off.
Suddenly the road became very steep
and the bike picked up speed quickly.
There was a turn ahead in the road and
I knew I was going to crash. The bike
went straight into a wall, but luckily
I flew over it and landed in a field of long
grass.
THE UNEXPECTED
Mr Charles Everson and his wife Linda
were driving home from church one
Sunday when a cow fell from the sky and
landed on the bonnet of their van. The
cow, which had escaped from a breeding
farm, had been grazing too close to the
edge of a cliff next to the road and had
slipped and plunged 200 feet. When the
emergency services arrived at the scene
they found the cow dead and Mr and Mrs
Everson in shock.