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Past Continuous Affirmative Negative InterrogativeSet 15

1My parents ..... dinner when I called them last night.
2Create a sentence in past progressive about your favorite hobby.
3The students ..... attentively to the lecturer when a phone rang.
4..... the plumber ..... a dishwasher at 3 pm yesterday?
5We ..... TV when the electricity went off.
6While she ....., I cleaned the room.
7Which of these shows the correct way to build the past continuous tense?
8Choose the correct tense (simple past or past progressive).When her husband ..... Sally ..... dinner. (arrive/cook)
9The class was working on their projects all day yesterday.
10They ..... (blow) the candles in the party
11He ..... fast when the accident happened.
12My father ..... a newspaper while my mother ..... the floor
13He (a) talking
14Convert to past continuous: I walk to school yesterday.
15Ricky ..... near the border of Western Australia and Northern Territory. He stopped to help some people whose car had been broken down and offered them a lift to a nearby town.
16You ..... your friends last Sunday morning.
17Luke ..... his lightsaber skills when his teacher suddenly fainted.
18My boys ..... in the kitchen when I arrived.
19Fill the blank with the correct form of the verb in past continuous tense.Grandma ..... (knit)a sock at 11 o'clocklast night.
20What were the lions doing when Sarah and her family saw them?
21The postman ..... by the dog next door.Fill in the Blank with Suitable Past Continuous Tense option
22I saw Lucy and Steve this morning. They ..... at the bus stop. (EGU 14)
23While we ..... on the phone, the power went out.
24What is the correct form for a question in the Past Progressive?
25I ..... that collage at my school's art show last winter.
26Create a question in the past continuous tense: You (watch) TV?
27While I ....., my phone suddenly rang.
28What is the correct sentence in past continuous tense?
29When I came to his house, he ..... to music.
30UNIT 8 STANDARD GRAMMAR1) Choose the correct option5. We ..... the science lab while we ..... the university.
31Who was that nice girl you talked / were talking to when I walked / was walking by the pub?
32At 10 AM yesterday, my brother ..... (sleep).
33Select the correct Suzy ..... the dog when she saw a cat
34I ..... about a holiday in Greece. I couldn't believe it when my husband ..... one as a surprise!
35Choose the correct answer: When I came home my parents .....
36Ryan ..... his book when the telephone rang.
37When I came to the hotel, she ..... the loby.
38They ..... TV when the electricity went off.
39The teacher ..... when the bell rang.
40The song ..... when I entered the room. (past continuous)
41Jim ..... (wait) at one airport while Max ..... (wait) at the other. What a disaster!
42Choose the correct past continuous tense form:While I ....., the doorbell rang.
43We use the past continuous to .....
44The lorry very fast when it hit our car.
45I was eating pizza
46In the restroom, Rei was brushing her hair, freshened her lip-gloss, and took deep breaths, trying to work up the courage to walk to her first speech class.
47The boys ..... much noise when I arrived.
48You weren't studying
49The first time I saw him he ..... his dad's car. It looked like hard work.
50We were walking on the beach earlier today when we found a message in a bottle.
51The burglars ..... my house at 11 o'clock this morning.
52We ..... cooking at 7 p.m yesterday.
53Sarah ..... (run) at that moment because she was late for her classes.
54Give an example of a past continuous sentence.
55While I ..... to school, it began to rain so hard.
56I ..... photographs for my collages last year.
57True or False: Past continuous tense is used to describe ongoing/continuous actions in the past.
58My dad found some money while he ..... his suitcase.
59Choose the correct tense for the sentence:That was the last straw, Brandon was tired of virtual learning.
60It ..... this morning when I woke up.
61We ..... football at 7 o'clock in the evening yesterday.