Past tenses – key


I.                    1 laid

2. lay

3 lied

4 laid

5 laid

6 laid

7 lay

8 lied


II.                 1 fell

2 cost

3 felt

4 founded

5 fell

6 wounded

7 founded

8 wounded

9 found

10 wound

11 felt

12 wound

13 costed

14 found


III. When I opened the door I saw a man on his knees. He had clearly been listening to our
conversation and I wondered/was wondering how much he had heard. When I asked him what he was
doing/ had been doing , he answered he had dropped a 50 p piece and was looking for it. I didn’t
see any sign of money, but I found a small notebook and a pencil which he probably had dropped when
the door opened suddenly. So he had been taking notes of our conversation! The notes were written
in a foreign language, so I turned to the stranger and asked him to translate. But he pulled my hat
over my eyes and ran off down the corridor. By the time I had recovered from the shock he
disappeared round the corner. Curiously enough, when I moved my feet I found that I had been
standing on a 50p piece. Perhaps he had been telling the truth after all.