Underline the event that happened first in the following sentences.
1. Jon couldn't eat for five hours after he had his tooth pulled out.
2. Wayne sang in a lot of small town bars before he became a famous rock and roll singer.
3. I was
just sitting down to relax with a drink when the telephone rang
for the first time
Sunday night.
4. Vicky was watching TV while she was doing her nails. (these are simultaneous)
5. Before Tammy allowed the dog in the house, she washed its paws.
6. Stephen
was just getting used to being office manager when he was promoted
to vice
president.
7. When Carlos got to the desk at the hotel, they told him that they had run out of rooms.
8. When Anna tried to print her letter to Maureen, the printer jammed.
9. Samuel complained to his teacher
when the people in the library refused to let
him
take out the engineering journal.
10. Yu He took a nap after he
had finished his homework.
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