Complete the story about the great cafeteria disaster of 2023 by dragging the correct verbs into the blanks.

Mr. Henderson was walking across the room when he suddenly slipped on a rogue mashed potato. He was carrying a giant stack of our math tests at the time, and they flew everywhere!

Mr. Henderson was walking across the room when he suddenly slipped on a rogue mashed potato. He was carrying a giant stack of our math tests at the time, and they flew everywhere!

The past continuous is perfect for setting the scene and describing an action that was already in progress ("was walking", "was carrying") when a sudden event in the past simple ("slipped") interrupted it.