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Complete a text.
I have to complete a text using narrative tense: Past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous. The text is the following, with the verbs in brackets, but I'm not sure.
A seach for a missing child in the East Paterson (ended) happily last week after five-year-old Ricky Ross was found asleep in his own room. Last Monday, Julie Ross, the boy's mother, (was working) in the front garden when she (heard) her son cry out.
He (had been playing) in the living room but when she (ran) to the house, she (saw) that the back door was open and there was no sign of her son.
Neighbours (joined) in the search and as they (searched) in the forest behind the house, they (found) a few pieces of children's clothing. There was initial panic but it was soon clear that the clothing (had been) there for years and didn´t belong to the boy. Ricky was eventually found by another child who (went into) the boy's room while the seach (was going on) because she (heard ) a noise from the toy chest. When she (opened) it, there was Ricky, safe and sound - he (was asleep) [had been sleeping] in the toy chest the whole time, unaware of the panic he had caused.
GREEN BOLD = Correct
GREEN ITALLICS = ALTERNATIVE
BLUE BOLD = corrections
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