Question

Identify the tenses, then match the sentences on the left with their functions on the right.
1. The young people were dancing to a
loud music when I entered the room.
2. She finished writing the course paper
yesterday.
3. Mike had made a report before his boss
asked him about it.
4. When they were playing in the attic,
they found a rare book.
5. They redecorated the house when they
moved to New York.
6. They had been redecorating the house
for a year before they moved in.
7. The office workers had already locked
the door when the alarm went off.
8. In the middle of the party, when they
were having fun, the storm hit.
9. They started the company in 1999.
10. The students were cheating while they
were writing the test.
11. They locked the door, gave the keys to
the guard and went home.
12. The company’s funds had run out by
the end of the year.
a — an action which
happened at a specific time
in the past;
b — actions which took
place immediately one after
another in the past;
c — an action which was in
progress before another
action interrupted it;
d — an action which was
completed before another
action in the past;
e
were in progress
— two or more actions
simultaneously;
f — an action which was
completed before some
specific time in the past.
g — an action which lasted
for some time in the past
before another action or a
stated time in the past