Practice Makes Perfect

14. Karen works in New Orleans.


15. You often make mistakes.

Change the habitual past tense to a past tense action in progress or incomplete.

EXAMPLE: I studied it.

I was studying it.

1. He wrote a letter.


2. My mother sat in the garden.


3. Jim stood next to Alicia.


4. The man brought us some fish.


5. We lost the game.


6. The boys hurried home.


7. The dog buried a bone in the yard.


8. I had a bad day.


9. They went to the store.


10. He stayed with an uncle.

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