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A student is trying to explain to his professor why he arrived to class completely soaked. Select ALL the excuses that use the past tenses correctly.
The correct answers are I was riding my bike to school when it started to rain and It started to rain while I was riding my bike to school.
The longer, in-progress action ("was riding") takes the past continuous, and the sudden event that interrupts it ("started") takes the past simple. "While" should be placed before the past continuous action, and "when" is usually placed before the past simple action.