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Past simple / Preterite continuous

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1. Yesterday I decidedhave decidedhad decidedI don't know to go shopping.

2. I hadwas havingwould haveI don't know people for dinner that evening. It was great.

3. I tookhad takenwas takingI don't know my car to drive to the supermaket.

4. A policeman stopped me and told me that my indicators haven't been workingwere not workingdidn't workI don't know.

5. He gavewas givinggivedI don't know a £5 fine.

6. I was furious but I wasn't daringdidn't daredaren'tI don't know say anything.

7. When I finally entered the supermarket, hundreds of people had already been shoppingwere already shoppingalready shoppingI don't know.

8. I bought a plastic and was beginningbegunbeganI don't know walking down the aisles.

9. I caught sight of Mrs Robinson who was buyingwere buyingboughtI don't know fish fingers for her children.

10. She spotted me, she absolutely had hadhadwas havingI don't know to tell me her news.

11. She she redecoratedshe were redecoratingwas redecoratingI don't know her house, she needed help.

12. I told her that I thinkedthoughtI don't know bright green with orange dots would do and walked away.

13. I didn't turn round, I knew what a face she mademakedwas makingI don't know.

14. By the time I reached the cashdesks, they were closinghad closedclosedI don't know the supermarket.

15. That's when I realized that my bottle of olive oil was leakingleakedhad leakedI don't know.