Put the verb in brackets in the correct simple past form.My grandfather had a very exciting life. When he was young, he
_____________ (live) on a farm in the country. His parents
_____________ (raise) cattle,
and he ____________ (look) after the cows.
When he was eighteen, he went to university, where
he ____________ (study) Philosophy. He also
____________ (play) the trumpet in a jazz band.
When the war started, he ____________ (try)
to join the Air Force, but he ____________
(end) up in the Navy. In the Atlantic, a German torpedo
_____________ (rip) a hole in the side of his ship, and the ship
sank. Only five men _____________ (escape). They
____________ (sail) in a lifeboat back to England. Then he met
my grandmother, and they _____________ (marry) after only
three weeks. He says now that he _____________ (want) to
marry her very quickly in case he ____________ (die) in the war.
