2 UNITS 21 AND 22 There is a mistake with past forms in each of these sentences. Correct the mistake, then match the sentence with an explanation from A-G below, as in the example.
swerved
O The car had swerved past us, then it immediately hit the lamp-post. 1 Julia hates working. She would be much happier whe was a student. 2 Almost everyone left the party when I got there. Only Alex and Mike were
still there.
3 We all complained to our manager about Larry as he continually took two-hour
lunch breaks.
4 Jack was exhausted when he arrived - he was running to catch the train. 5 Emma was waking up, was getting up, was showering as usual … then she remembered
what a big day it was.
6 We used to go to our son's graduation ceremony last weekend. A We don't use this form for a single action in the past. B We don't usually use this form for an action that happens immediately before another. C We don't use this form when the action has already stopped. D We don't use this form for a series of complete, fairly quick actions in the past. E We don't use this form for a state in the past, only actions that are no longer happening. F We prefer to use the continuous for actions in the past which annoyed us. G We don't use this form when we want to show that the action happened before
another action.