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ACT English Difficulty: Hard (520)

Digital ACT English Practice Question #1976

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Choose the best option for the underlined portion: While the orchestra was rehearsing the fourth movement, the power suddenly went out in the concert hall.
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Ongoing past action interrupted by sudden event: simple past (went out).

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A single completed interruption in the past takes simple past tense ("went out"), set against ongoing past action ("was rehearsing")....

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