Were you watching watch the football match on tv when i phoned phone. Watch the punctuation and form sentences or questions. I fell asleep while the teacher was explaining the lesson. It is used to talk about something that was happening at some time in the past.
Download printable version pdf please use short forms e. Complete the sentences with the past simple or the past continuous forms of the verbs in brackets. I had an important meeting to describe a completed action that happened at a specific time in the past. When jack dropped by to visit me, i was having dinner. Past simple past continuous uses to describe a completed action in the past. I study for five hours and then i go to sit the exam. This work is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial noderivatives 4. Microsoft word past continuous all forms mixed exercise. I a book i an email 1 2 they water they coffee 3 4 1 completa. Past continuous decide if each question or statement is correct or wrong. Simple past and past continuous exercise 4 english page. B complete the sentences with the past continuous form of. Pay attention to the tense past simple or past continuous and write the answer in the same tense.
Past simple and past continuous 1 complete the sentences with the correct past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets. He jump into the river and rescue the drowning man. Past simple past continuous past perfect pdf print email. Put each verb in brackets into the past perfect simple or the past perfect continuous. I began to study at nine last night and i was still studying at eleven. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 grammarbank. Present perfect continuous exercises future continuous exercises first conditional or second. When the teacher came in, they were studying english. I see my first baseball match while i live in new york. Exercise 1 criticising past actions complete the sentences with the appropriate verbs. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 answers. Students solutions preintermediate grammar exercise 2 past simple and continuous. English grammar lesson online for elementary level students an explanation of the past continuous with printable exercises. Test your knowledge of past continuous tense with this grammar exercise fill in the blanks with appropriate past continuous form of the verb given in the brackets.
We were playing volleyball with mary when you called me. Past simple, past continuous exercise 1 was doing, i broke was playing, was doing he drank, he ate i was having, i suddenly heard. Past simple past continuous past perfect exercises pdf. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the past simple or past continuous. Past simple past continuous, used to answers a 1 rode 4 didnt clean 2 played 5 didnt travel 3 forgot 6 did drink b 1 was writing, were taking 2 werent studying, were making 3 were riding 4 were sitting 5 wasnt washing, was sleeping 6 was snowing c 1 was writing, delivered 2. She closed the door and switched on the tv to describe a specific action that took place. The past continuous tense is used to talk about actions or events that were in progress around a particular past time. The present perfect continuous also called present perfect progressive is a verb tense which is used to show that an action started in the past and has continued up to the present moment. Christine was eating dinner last night when you knocked on the door. Write the words in brackets in past simple or past continuous tense.
These are exercises to rewrite sentences and make questions for the answers given. Heres another exercise to practise the verb tenses. The past continuous tense an elementary grammar worksheet fromanna grammarz the past continuous tense has these uses. When i left university, i went to work for a private school. Past perfect and past simple choose the past perfect, or the past simple. I was going go to work when my car broke down break down. In each sentence, fill the gaps with one past continuous verb and one past simple verb.
Past continuous mixed exercise 1 make the past continuous you need to choose positive, negative or question. You at the movies he in a coffee shop she on the beach we at the shopping mall they at home now make the sentences negative. Sentences and questions in the past progressive exercise 1. The present perfect continuous usually emphasizes duration, or the amount of time that an action has been taking place. Finally, click here to download this exercise in pdf with answers. Answers to past simple or past continuous exercise 2 1. The action had not finished at a particular time in the past. Last night, while i was doing my homework, angela call. The past past simple and past continuous 1 an exercise by montse morales for the english learning website. An exercise by montse morales for the english learning website. My worksheet is for practicing past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses. Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Past simple past continuous past perfect test 01 past simple past continuous past. Students will notice the different uses considering the time expressions and linking words.
There are 27 questions which are required to be answered in these 3 tenses. Yesterday i went to the post office, bought some fruit at the supermarket and read a book in the park in the afternoon. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 2 answers. He started university in 1996 to describe consecutive actions in the past. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 2 grammarbank.
Verb tense exercise 4 simple past and past continuous. Look at the pictures and complete the sentences in the affirmative or the negative. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then click the. Exercise 1 criticising past actions solutions oxford. Did your parents call you last night while you were watching tv. As i was walking in the streets of holland, i met an old friend of mine.
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