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Past Continuous Affirmative Negative InterrogativeSet 23

1Joshua and Kody ..... throwing around a football.
2True or FalseWe use the simple past in the verb to write a sentences in Past Progressive
3Fill the sentence with the correct verb form:This morning at 10 o'clock it .....
4What was Zan doing when fire broke out?
5What is the VERB TENSE of verb/verb phrase in the following sentence? Jon was waving outside the classroom window.
6It ..... hard when I ..... this morning.
7Julieth was eating a cake yesterday.
8Dauren mentioned that he ..... working on a project with his colleagues from London.
9Identify the verb tense: He was playing soccer yesterday.
10..... you ..... for your friend when I saw you yesterday?
11Choose the right variant. We ..... along the forest road when it started raining.
12I ..... (not listen) to you when you ..... (ask) me the question.
13She caught them while they .....
14Choose the correct form of the verb for the sentence: "The teacher ..... explaining the lesson when the bell rang"
15He was doing his homework when I called him.
16I WAS LISTENING TO MUSIC IS AN AFFIRMATIVE EXAMPLE OF PAST CONTINUOUS
17The kids ..... (tidy) the room at 7 yesterday.
18We ..... while you ..... volleyball.
19Lucy ..... her favourite show on TV when her friend came.
20Past Simple Tense or Past Continuous TenseThe girls ..... (water) the plants, while the boys ..... (pick) apples.
21Our teacher came in when we ..... noisily.
22While the doctor was examining Mr Jones, his son ..... outside this morning.
23..... Johan ..... (talk) to you just now?
24Choose the correct verb tense for the following sentence:Mrs. Crown ..... her class about progressive tense verbs last week.
25She (a) saying something
26Was Mitch ..... a seat belt when he had the accident?
27I ..... (not/listen) to him when he spoke in front of the class.
28My phone battery died while I ..... a video.
29Why did you get my book? I ..... that history book.
30She (talk) ..... to her friend when I (see) ..... her.
31We ..... (not listen) to music when the phone rang.
32My friends ..... calling me last night to make plans for the weekend.
33Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.This time last week, we ..... for the exam. It was so hot in the examination room.
34At 8.30am today I ..... driving to work. (past tense)
35The cats ..... at the end of the corridor.
36Which of the following is the correct form of the sentence? It is raining when we went to the park.
37What were your parents doing when you arrived home?
38Complete the sentences with the verbs in PAST SIMPLE or PAST CONTINUOUS9. He(do the ironing) ..... all morning.
39We were laughing at the joke when the teacher walked in.
40The car ..... by the driver two hours ago.
41I ..... home when I met my teacher.
42While he ..... in high school, he ..... a lot of friends.
43I was doing my math homework when you came, it was so hard.What kind of tenses is this?
44What were you ..... while I .....?
45Everybody (celebrate) when the name of Hidylyn Diaz was called in the Tokyo Olympics.
46Choose the sentence which is closer in meaning to the original.I was writing an e-mail when our computer broke down.
47Choose the correct verb/verb phrase to fit the tense of the sentence.As we ....., I asked Laura to join me for lunch.
48Choose the correct past tense verbs.When Fred ..... in Australia he ..... scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef.
49A: I called you last night.B: Sorry, I ..... a shower at that time.
50She ..... out with her friends at three o'clock in the afternoon.
51The greengrocer ..... fresh vegetables when I bought the carrots.
52The cat ..... on the sofa when we entered the room.
53At 4 o'clock yesterday evening, she ..... my clothes.
54The students ..... in the classroom when the alarm went off.
55Were you driving when I ..... last night?
56The teacher ..... the students' papers when the fire alarm went off.
57What ..... you ..... at 8 a.m.?
58I ..... (meet) Tom and Ann at the airport a few weeks ago. They ..... (go) to Berlin and I ..... (go) to Madrid. We ..... (have) a chat while we were waiting/waited (wait) for our flights.
59Choose the correct words.I ..... studying yesterday afternoon.
60Complete the sentence. Use the correct form of the verb in parentheses. I saw some old friends while I ..... (play) baseball in the park yesterday.
61While the teacher ..... the concept, a student raised an interesting question.