Activity 1- A. Read the legend "Why the Sky is High" then supply the Simple Past Tense of the given verb inside the parenthesis. Write your answer on the blank.
Why the Sky Is High (Iloko)
In the olden days, the only people on earth were a man and a woman. One day, they (1.eat)________ ate venison which the man had (2.bring).___home from hunting. But because the bones were very big and they wanted to eat the marrow, they (3. think)_________ of pounding the bones. The woman (4. remove)._______
her comb and necklace and hung them on the low sky. But whenever she (5. pound).________she would hit the sky.So she (6. request)._______the sky to rise higher. It (7.thunder)._________ and the sky rose higher. Still the pestle hit the sky. So the woman again (8.ask).___________the sky to go higher. It thundered and the sky (9. rise).____higher. Still the pestle hit the sky. So the woman again asked the sky to go higher. Again it thundered and the sky rose as high as could be. When the woman remembered what she had hung, it was too late. They (10.become)._________the moon and the stars.
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Answer:
1. ate
2. brought
3. thought
4 removed
5. pounded
6. requested
7. thundered
8. asked
9. rose
10. became
Explanation:
the past simple of 'rise' is 'rose' and its past participle form is 'risen'