Question

Here is a newspaper story which once hit the headlines all over the world.
Rewrite the story putting the verbs in brackets into the simple past tense
or past perfect tense.
herte Chaplin, the twentieth century's greatest comedian, died (die) on Christmas Day.
7370 Fourwo days later in a little cemetery overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
exsceno) twenty-five years in a nearby village, where the comedian-maintain) r otros
mansion Throughout the world, newspapers Ypublish) tributes to Chaplin's career
oth as actor and film director,
and then in the spring of 1978, while the tributes continue) to flood in, a quite fantastic
tory (oreak) out. On March 2, press reports Yannounce) that the body of Sir Charles
Thaolin (vanish) overnight from its grave.
he cemetery (be) small and square, surrounded by a low stone wall. It contain) some
our hundred tombs mostly belonging to local people and marked by modest headstones
nd simple wooden crosses.
e Swiss police (institute) a search. Local people offer) details. One man (say) that
ortly after midnight he hear) a noise like that of a pickaxe from the cemetery.
29​

Answer 1

Answer:

Here is a newspaper story which once hit the headlines all over the world.

Rewrite the story putting the verbs in brackets into the simple past tense

or past perfect tense.

herte Chaplin, the twentieth century's greatest comedian, died (die) on Christmas Day.

7370 Fourwo days later in a little cemetery overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

exsceno) twenty-five years in a nearby village, where the comedian-maintain) r otros

mansion Throughout the world, newspapers Ypublish) tributes to Chaplin's career

oth as actor and film director,

and then in the spring of 1978, while the tributes continue) to flood in, a quite fantastic

tory (oreak) out. On March 2, press reports Yannounce) that the body of Sir Charles

Thaolin (vanish) overnight from its grave.

he cemetery (be) small and square, surrounded by a low stone wall. It contain) some

our hundred tombs mostly belonging to local people and marked by modest headstones

nd simple wooden crosses.

e Swiss police (institute) a search. Local people offer) details. One man (say) that

ortly after midnight he hear) a noise like that of a pickaxe from the cemetery.

29