Choose the correct options.

1. Ake Viking was in the middle of some work. He was building / built / ’d built a boat.

2. He was lonely. So he ’d written / was writing / wrote a letter and put it in a bottle.

3. One day, a fisherman was finding / found / had found the bottle while he ’d looked / looked / was looking through his nets.

4. The message was / was being / had been in the bottle for a long time when the fisherman had opened / was opening / opened it.

5. Later Ake married / had married / was marrying Paolina, the fisherman’s daughter.