Once upon a time, three thieves, who _had stolen (steal) a pot of gold in a distant town ____________ (return) to their village. They ____________ (pass) through a small town when it ____________ (grow) dark. Their village ____________ (be) still a long way away.
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The paragraph can be written as follows:
Once upon a time, three thieves, who had stolen (steal) a pot of gold in a distant town were returning (return) to their village. They were passing(pas) through a small town when it grew (grow) dark. Their village was (be) still a long way away.
- In English grammar, we can depict the tense of the verb by looking at the sentence structure.
- A story is often written in the past tense hence we have used past tense for the story in the question.
- Mostly, the verb is the only part of the sentence which is written in the past tense.
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