Exercise 7: Complete this email with either the past simple or the past continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Where alternatives are possible, think about any difference in meaning.

I (1. buy) was buying a new alarm clock the other day in Taylors the jewellers, when I actually (2. see) saw somebody shoplifting. Id finished paying for my clock and as I (3. turn) turned  round, an elderly woman (4. slowly put) was slowly putting a silver plate into a bag that she (5. carry) was carrying Then she (6. walk) walked over to another part of the shop and (7. pick up) picked up an expensive-looking watch a number of times. When she (8. think) thought that nobody (9. look) was looking , she (10. drop) was dropping it into the bag. Before I (11. have) had a chance to tell the staff in the shop, she (12. notice) noticed that I (13. watch) was watching her and (14. hurry) hurried  out. Unfortunately for her, two police officers (15. walk) were walking past just at that moment and she (16. run) ran straight into them.

` => `S + was/were + V-ing.

` => `S + was/were + not + V-ing

` => `  S + V2/ed + O

` => ` S + did not + V (nguyên mẫu)

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