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What is Connie’s Christmas present? Why is it the best Christmas present in the world?

Connie mistook the author to be her husband. She had long waited for her Jim to come back from the war on Christmas and finally had him by her side. Even if it were a mistake, the old lady was happy after years of waiting, the joy she must have felt was definitely the best Christmas present in the world.


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Look at these sentences from the story.

I spotted it in a junk shop in Bridport… The man said it was made in the early nineteenth century … This one was in a bad condition…


The italicised verbs are in the past tense. They tell us what happened in the past, before now.


Read the passage below and underline the verb in the past tense.


A man got on the train and sat down. The compartment was empty except for one lady.


She took her gloves off. A few hours later the police arrested the man. They held him for 24 hours and then freed him.