1. Unit 11 Crime and punishment NARRATIVE TENSES past simple
past continuous
past perfect
practice

2. NARRATIVE TENSES: Past simple
grammar
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Examples
NARRATIVE TENSES
past simple
The police arrested the criminal.
I left my house at 9:00.
They went to the restaurant together.
She ate a big dinner.
It bothered me when he said that.
We laughed until we cried.
He burned his hand on the stove.
past continuous
past perfect
practice

3. NARRATIVE TENSES: Past continuous
grammar
unit 11
Examples
NARRATIVE TENSES
past simple
The police were arresting the criminal when I arrived.
I was leaving school when I saw the time.
They were eating dinner when they heard the news.
She was watching the news.
They were swimming in the lake.
We were laughing at his joke.
He was singing a song.
past continuous
past perfect
practice

4. NARRATIVE TENSES: Past perfect
grammar
unit 11
Examples
NARRATIVE TENSES
past simple
The police had arrested the criminal before noon.
I had left my wallet at my house.
They had clicked the wrong link.
She had seen the accident but she didn’t talk about it.
They had thrown out the dish hours before.
We had broken up before the holidays.
He had learned an important lesson.
past continuous
past perfect
practice

5. arrest steal climb a mountain teach catch drink
NARRATIVE TENSES: Practice
grammar
unit 11
Practice
NARRATIVE TENSES
Use each of the verbs to make sentences with the past simple, the past continuous, and the past perfect.
past simple
past continuous
Example:
past perfect
The robber was arrested.
He was arrested for robbing a store.
He had been arrested before.
practice
arrest
steal
climb a mountain
teach
catch
drink