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The inhabitants of Grover's Mill fired their weapons at the city's water tank,convinced it had become a"huge Martian war machine."A woman accused Welles and his team of causing her a panic attack,while a man received compensation from Welles for a pair of shoes he claimed to have given up to buy a train ticket to flee the alien invasion. Hospitals received calls from people willing to donate blood to help.showing the extent of the mass hysteria.

Contrary to what some people thought,this polemic transmission was not the end of Welles'career, but the beginning of a legend that pushed him to lifelong stardom.On October 31, newspapers announced the radio transmission on the front page,along with more than twelve thousand articles published in newspapers throughout the country for several days. Orson Welles was immediately hired by RKO Pictures to make his first movie, Citizen Kane.

Grammar

Simple Past

While using the simple past, you can add expressions like yesterday,last night, or ten minutes ago to indicate that something happened at a specific point in the past. The most common expressions are listed below:

Remember:

a) The simple past tense is used when talking about actions that happened and finished at a specific point in the past.

b) Use time expressions to clarify when the action occurred.

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Time Expression	Explanation	Examples
yesterday	Refers to the day before today.	Yesterday, scientists announced the discovery of a new exoplanet.
last + day of the week/month/ year	Refers to the most recent occurrence of a specific day of the week, month, or yean	Last Friday,I saw a meteor streaking across the night sky.
fime units +ago	Used to indicate how far back in the past something happened.	The finst moon landing happened 55 years ago.
in+ year	Refens to a specific year in the past.	In 1947, a UF0 sighting in Roswell, New Mexico, spanked widespread theories.

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