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Past Continuous Affirmative Negative InterrogativeSet 54

1We ..... a piano lesson at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
2Elizabeth ..... when she ..... the plate.
3Hello Anna, what ..... (you / do) when I called you last night?
4What ..... doing when you arrived?
5I ..... (eat/eating/was eating) lunch when my friend called
6The managers ..... their individual assessments when the meeting began.
7She ..... on the phone when you called, which is why she didn't answer.
8Why ..... you yelling last night?
9Complete the sentence: "While I ..... (cook), my brother was watching TV."
10What ..... at 8 a.m. this morning?
11Mary ..... her hair when the phone rang.
12At 5:00 this morning I ..... my bed
13Sandberg ..... as vice President at Google when Mark Zuckerberg approached her.
14Were you playing cricket yesterday?choose the tense
15When I last spoke to her, she was thinking of moving abroad.
16Thomas was writing the introduction to the report.
17I didn't get any sleep because the dog ..... night.
18They ..... walking in the park when I saw them.
19Past continuousWhat ..... you ..... at 10 o'clock last night? (do)
20The boys (are cleaning, were cleaning) the classroom windows when one of them fell off the chair.
21What ..... at 8 p.m. last night?
22Which of the following sentences is in past progressive:'I was sleeping', 'I sleep', or 'I will sleep'?
23It started raining while we (jog) ..... in the park this morning
24ULA ..... WORK FOR THE DAY WHEN THE EMAIL .....
25They ..... (study) when the teacher arrived.
26They (have) dinner when the power (go) out.
27I was jumping in my mom's bed
28We ..... (walk) for 10 minutes when we finally ..... (see) the train station.
29Lan's sisters ..... Tv when she called me.
30While they ..... lunch at the new restaurant, a journalist ..... up to them and wanted to ask a few questions.
31Choose the correct structure with past continuos
32Your mother phoned while you .....
33Harry ..... his friends that night so he ..... his parents he was going to be late.
34Charlotte ..... all yesterday afternoon.
35He could not answer his mobile phone as he ..... just now.
36I ..... an essay when the table started trembling.
37Choose the correct tense: When I arrived, they ..... TV.
38He ..... (read) a book when I called him.
39The auxiliary is was/were + verb in ing.
40It was noisy next door. Our neighbors ..... a party.
41While the secretary ..... on the computer, her boss ..... a phone call
42I ..... when my father heard the announcement about me on the radio
43She was cooking when I was talking on the phone with my parents
44Write complete sentences using past continuous: he/ chat/ friends/ online/ 10 p.m./ yesterday?
45Choose the correct variant of Past Tenses. While I ..... this morning, I ..... my money. I don't know how
46They ..... football in the park. (Past Continuous tense)
47The baby was crying for an hour.what tense is that?
48The man ..... (take) my handbag while I ..... (sit) in the restaurant.
49Dad ..... while I ..... the plants.
50Which tense is used to describe an action that started in the past and was still happening at another specific moment in the past?
51At 5 o'clock on Monday his sister ..... the dog.
52The seals ..... eating fish when a shark suddenly appeared.
53The car ..... while Linda ..... to the workplace.
54Ms. Tommy slipped and fell ..... on the icy sidewalk in front of the building.
55I ..... TV at this time yesterday.
56At 6 PM yesterday, I ..... dinner in the kitchen.
57Choose the correct option to complete the sentence:The store ..... when the security alarm ..... off.
58Jean ..... (drive) his new car when we saw her.
59Hi Diane! Do you remember me? We ..... at the baskeball match last Saturday while our children .....
60He ..... (tobe) driving to work this morning when Anna called.
61To describe what someone was doing at a particular point in time