Past simple passive or past progressive passive?
1. The letter didn't come by post it (put) on our doorstep by someone while we were out .
2.While the table (lay) we had time to change our dirty clothes.
3. Jack heard footsteps behind him and realized that he (Follow).
4.The piece of advice (give) to me by my father many years ago.
5.While the man's identity (check) by the police, he broke away and escaped.
6. By whom Hamlet first (translate) into Russian?
7.At that moment some music (play) loudly so I couldn't hear very well what he was saying to me.
8.The rooms in the house still (decorate) when the family had to move in, which caused a lot of inconvenience.
9.The play first (stage)in 1903 and was a huge success.
10.The children quickly (put) in a line and (take) to their classroom.