In some cases, more than one tense may be correct

[Nonverbis]

Upstream Proficiency by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley



And the answer key:




The problem here is that they did not use more than one tense.

My variant:

1.
was waiting
came

2.
realised
had not packed

3. was gathering
got

4.
had spoken (spoke)
contacted

5.
had turned (turned)
noticed
was coming (came)

As for item 3, I agree that the variant in the key is better.

Could you tell me whether I my variants in 4 and 5 are Ok or erroneous? Maybe some other criticism or advice to me?

 

[5jj]

That question took some reading through, Ninverbs, It would have been more starightforward if you had omitted the the first two questions, published and closed up some of the spaces.

3. was gathering got

4. had spoken (spoke) contacted

5. had turned (turned) noticed was coming (came)

3. Your answer is fine.
4. Your answer is fine.
5. had turned is not very natural; was coming is fine..

 

[jutfrank]

The only error you've made is using had turned the corner, which doesn't make good sense in the context. The idea is that the turning the corner and the noticing were cotemporaneous.