5GA. Verbs I: Tense & Aspect Grammar Activities

Read the following paragraph, a news story from The Guardian:

As police crack down on homelessness, unhoused end up in Mojave desert

In a remote stretch of southern California desert, at least 200 unhoused people live outside, battling the extremes: blazing hot temperatures in the summer, snow in winter, rugged terrain inaccessible to many vehicles, a constant wind that blankets everything with silt, and no running water for miles. For Candice Winfrey, the conditions almost proved deadly. The 37-year-old lives in a camper in the Mojave desert, on the northern edge of Los Angeles county, miles from the nearest store. During a record-breaking heatwave in July 2020, she found herself running out of water. The jug of a gallon she had left had overheated, the water so hot it was barely drinkable. It was more than 110F (43C), and no one was around to help. She recalled lying in her tent, trying not to think about the heat exhaustion and dehydration overtaking her. “I thought I was going to die. I was seeing the light. I was just waiting it out and praying to God that I would make it.”

Besides the lexical uses of ‘was’, how many simple lexical verbs were there? Don’t forget to include the verbs in the title.