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The action happened at a specific moment.","The car stopped suddenly in the middle of the highway.",[58],{"id":59,"blankNumber":19,"options":60},"019d3400-6726-776a-84ce-c74c189f052a",[61,64,67],{"id":62,"optionText":63,"isCorrect":28,"displayOrder":9},"019d3400-6726-7706-84ce-c74c16437020","crashes",{"id":65,"optionText":66,"isCorrect":24,"displayOrder":19},"019d3400-6726-772a-84ce-c74c16ef38d8","crashed",{"id":68,"optionText":69,"isCorrect":28,"displayOrder":32},"019d3400-6726-774e-84ce-c74c17bedb1d","was crashing",{"id":71,"sentenceTemplate":72,"displayOrder":73,"explanation":74,"exampleSentence":75,"blanks":76},"019d3400-6726-787e-84ce-c74c1c2e3738","We __1__ about the cancelled flight until we arrived at the airport.",5,"Use past simple negative to describe something that was not true in the past. 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