Help Juliet's best friend describe the tragic first date by choosing the correct word for each blank.

Romeo thought he was being incredibly romantic. However, what he actually did was spill hot soup all over Juliet's brand-new dress. What she really wanted at that exact moment was a towel, not a dramatically recited poem!

Romeo thought he was being incredibly romantic. However, what he actually did was spill hot soup all over Juliet's brand-new dress. What she really wanted at that exact moment was a towel, not a dramatically recited poem!

did: In a wh-cleft sentence, the tense in the what-clause must logically align with the main verb. Since the main verb is the past tense "was," we need the past tense "did."

spill: This is a tricky advanced rule! When a wh-cleft focuses on an action (e.g., "What he did was..."), the focused verb takes the form of a bare infinitive (or sometimes a to-infinitive). Even though the sentence is in the past tense, using the past tense "spilled" here is grammatically incorrect.

wanted: Again, the past tense "wanted" is required to match the past tense "was" later in the sentence.