Match.
a) Which events were fully completed in the past? (Past Simple)
b) Which events weren’t finished in the past / were interrupted / were in the same time? ( Past Continuous)
c) Which events happened by the time / until the time / before / after other events in the past? Which event happened first? What event followed? (The time words after, before, until introduce the later time period; by the time and when — earlier time.) (Past Perfect.)
1. By 2005, he had become a famous artist.
2. George successfully passed his exams last week.
3. They had never met until Bruce started working at the same company as Mathew.
4. While John and Marine were getting to the centre from the airport, Lucy was booking a room in the hotel.
5. I didn’t want to go to the cinema yesterday, because I had already seen the film.
6. When Winston came home, Karen was reading a new magazine.
7. I had visited her in Liverpool twice before she came to visit me.