. Use the Simple Past or the Past Continuous. Late yesterday afternoon while I (prepare) … dinner, the doorbell(ring) … . I (put) … everything down and (rush) … to answer it.I (open) … the door and (smile) … at the stranger standing in mydoorway. He (hold) … a small vacuum cleaner. While he (tell) … meabout this wonderful vacuum cleaner that he wanted to sell me, thephone (ring) … . I (excuse) … myself and (reach) … for the phone.While I (try) … to talk on the phone and to listen to the vacuumcleaner salesman at the same time, my young son (run) … up to meto tell me about the cat. The cat (try) … to catch a big fish in myhusband’s prized aquarium. The fish (swim) … on the bottom toavoid the cat’s paw. I (say) … goodbye to the vacuum salesman and(shut) … the door. I (say) … goodbye to the person on the phone and(hang) … up. I (yell) … at the cat and (shoo) … her away from thefish. Then I (sit) … down in an easy chair and (catch) … my breath.While I (sit) … there, the doorbell (ring) … again. Then the phone(ring) … . Then my son (say) … “Mom! Mom! The dog is in the refrigerator!”I (move, not) … . “What’s next?” I said to myself.

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