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Complete the camper's tragic (but hilarious) diary entry by choosing the most accurate narrative tenses.
I ___________________________ blissfully in my tent when a suspiciously loud crunch snapped me awake. I instantly realized that I _________________________ to secure the food cooler. By the time I finally located my flashlight in the dark, a massive raccoon _______________________________ my entire stash of marshmallows and was happily licking its sticky paws!
The correct answers are was sleeping, had forgotten, and had already devoured.
was sleeping: We use the past continuous for a longer background action that gets interrupted by a shorter action in the past simple ("snapped me awake").
had forgotten: We use the past perfect simple for an action that happened (or failed to happen) before another past action. The forgetting happened before the realization.
had already devoured: We use the past perfect simple here because the action of eating the stash was entirely completed by the time the flashlight was found. We know it was finished because the raccoon "was happily licking its sticky paws" afterward!