Use the prompts to make sentences using the Past Simple or Past Continuous. 1. When bus arrive I read book.
2. Sarah travel with her parents when she have the car accident.
3. Who be at home when the police come?
4. Which assistant work at 11 o’clock yesterday morning?
5. When he cross the street John fall.
Explanation: We use the past simple tense (arrived) to talk about an action that happened and finished in the past. The past continuous tense (read) is not suitable in this sentence because it suggests an ongoing action, whereas reading a book is a completed action.
2. Sarah was traveling with her parents when she had the car accident.
Explanation: We use the past continuous tense (was traveling) to talk about an ongoing action in the past. The past simple tense (had) is used to talk about a specific completed action (car accident) that happened during the ongoing action.
3. Who was at home when the police came?
Explanation: We use the past continuous tense (was) to ask about an ongoing action in the past. The past simple tense (came) is used to talk about a specific completed action (police coming) that happened during the ongoing action.
4. Which assistant was working at 11 o'clock yesterday morning?
Explanation: We use the past continuous tense (was working) to talk about an ongoing action in the past. The time reference "at 11 o'clock yesterday morning" indicates a specific time in the past.
5. When he crossed the street, John fell.
Explanation: We use the past simple tense (crossed) to talk about an action that happened and finished in the past. The past simple tense (fell) is used to talk about another completed action (falling) that happened after the first action (crossing the street).