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Past Continuous Affirmative Negative InterrogativeSet 27

1Put the verb in the correct tense: Past Simple or Past Continuous. They (have) ..... a meeting at 5.30 p.m. Choose the correct form.
2Someone knocked on the door during my lunchtime.
3Convert to past continuous: She writes a letter.
4Yesterday at 12 I ..... (do) my homework.
5Jorge fell over at the disco when he .....
6Fill in the gap with the correct verb tense.Julie ..... when she broke her ankle yesterday.
7What ..... they doing when you saw them?
8The children (play) ..... in the garden when it (start) ..... to snow.
9The teacher was talking with the parents.
10When I ..... my meal, my cat ..... out of the wardrobe.
11We ..... around town when we bumped into Mary.
12Yesterday at 5 a.m. It ..... (rain)
13While I ..... my brother was watching TV
14All of you ..... just now.
15My brother ..... about wildlife in Australia at 4 o'clock yesterday.
16Samantha ..... being a student when she ..... in high school.
17Which of the following is a time expression for past progressive:'yesterday', 'while', or 'tomorrow'?
18I dropped a cup while I ..... the dishes
19Lucy found an interesting article when she ..... the Net.
20While Selina ..... smelling the roses, a bee stung her.
21We ..... setting the tent up when the wind blew strongly.
22She (walk) ..... down the street when it started to rain.
23Last Wednesday, a tour bus ..... along the expressway when it collided with a lorry.
24I met a friend while I ..... (do) the shopping.
25S+was,were+V1ing
26It was not raining last Tuesday evening
27We ..... (watch) tv when Dad came here.
28I ..... my homework when my friend called. (Past Continuous Tense)
29When my alarm went off I ..... dreaming about work!
30Yo estaba durmiendo
31At this time yesterday, I ..... to music in my room.
32I ..... a letter when he came to my house.
33The believers of the man (cry) when he died.
34My dog ..... when I arrived home.
35I saw that my son ....., so I decided not to wake him up.
36What sentence is this:Ben was playing computer games the whole day.
37We ..... to music while cleaning.
38I was doing my homework.
39EXERCISE 4: Most of the sentences contain one mistake. Write TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). Correct mistakes.11. Philippa heard the result of the election as she was driving to work, so she called me when she got there.
40No, I ..... doing my homework yesterday evening.
41I knew that he ..... waiting for somebody.
42I ..... English at 8 p.m. last night so I couldn't go to the movie.
43Mary was playing the piano, while Michel ..... a book.
44The dinner ..... when I arrived.
45The team ..... the report when the manager showed up.
46Susan ..... while I ..... dinner.
47She ..... a bath when the power went out.
48The penguins were sliding down the ice.
49I (wash) ..... the floor when the painter (go) .....
50Ken: What ..... at six last night? I didn't see you at home. Ada: I was jogging in the park.
51At 12.00 she ..... TV.
52He ..... his evening paper as usual when a friend of his called him.
53The verb in Past Continuous Tense describes actions taking place .....
54..... he living in Karachi at the time?
55While we ..... from the swimming pool, we saw a boy fall over
56What is the progressive tense form of the verb in the sentence "Ferdinand scoffed when his friends all left for college"?
57A story ..... by Grandma yesterday.
58Complete the sentence: ..... they ..... me when I arrived?
59They ..... at the party.
60When I opened the door I saw it ......
61At 8 a.m. yesterday, Riki and his friends ..... (watch) the football match.