As i wait near the restaurant, a creep stole my bag. Did your parents call you last night while you were watching tv. Pay attention to the tense past simple or past continuous and write the answer in the same tense. Heres an interactive exercise about the past simple and past continuous tenses choose the correct tense. Mixed past continuous exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise 3 exercise 4 exercise 5 exercise 6 exercise 7 exercise 8 exercise 9 exercise 10 exercise 11 exercise 12 exercise past continuous and past simple. Heres another exercise about the past simple of irregular verbs. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 grammarbank. Practise your english grammar in the english classroom. We were playing volleyball with mary when you called me.
Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 answers. The television suddenly turn off as i was watching it. The past continuous 1 practice using the past continuous verb tense in english. Check the answers to this exercise on past perfect tense. Christine was eating dinner last night when you knocked on the door. Past tense simple is used to describe actions that happened in the past. Past simple used when talking about something that happened in the past at a specific time.
In the second sentence, the guests arrived first and then jane started cooking. Choose which verb tense simple past or past continuous completes each sentence in a logical, naturalsounding way. Fill in the blanks with a correct form, the past simple or the past continuous. But we must use the present perfect simple with stative verbs, and we normally use the present perfect continuous with dynamic verbs although the present perfect simple is also possible. Before we reached the station we saw that we had lost our way. Simple past past progressive 1 simple past past progressive 2 past simple or past continuous simple past. Past simple and past continuous interactive worksheet.
Test comprising exercises with present simlpe, present continuous. How questions in the past continuous are formed and used. Exercise 2 choose the correct past continuous and past simple forms for the gaps below. Past continuous and past simple page 2 of 3 test english. Regularirregular verbs past simple past continuous.
As i was walking in the streets of holland, i met an old friend of mine. Past simple continuous 1 past simple continuous 2 past simple continuous 3 past progressive worksheet answers. Live worksheets english english as a second language esl past simple and past continuous past simple and past continuous past simple and past continuous fill in the gaps with the past simple or the past continuous of the verbs in brackets. I to take took a shower, then i to get dressed got dressed and to leave left. The boys were playing football while it was raining. Present simple or present continuous english grammar exercises. English esl past simple and past continuous worksheets. The past continuous is used to talk about an action or situation that was going on at a particular point of time in the past. Try making the english past simple with be this grammar exercise includes both wh and yes no question forms. Past continuous exercises past progressive in english. We look at how to form the past continuous in the affirmative, negative and question forms. Review the list of 50 irregular verbs on this page or download the list in pdf here. Finally, click here to download this exercise in pdf with answers. Last night wasnt the first time that i had seen the film.
When jack dropped by to visit me, i was having dinner. In the first one, jane started cooking dinner before the guests arrived. Past simple past continuous past perfect simple aws. When the boys arrived at the cinema, the film had already started, 3. Answers to past simple or past continuous exercise 2 1. Multiple choice questions and complete the sentences exercise about past tenses. The past past simple and past continuous 1 an exercise by montse morales for the english learning website. Yesterday i went to the post office, bought some fruit at the supermarket and read a book in the park in the afternoon. We use the past continuous to talk about longer actions in progress at some point in the past, and we use past simple to talk about shorter finished actions in the past.
Simple past and past continuous exercises i went i was going. Before the exercise,there is a small tip about these thre. Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. All the tickets had been sold before the concert began. Past continuous exercise 2 look at these sentences and answer the questions by circling a or b. Present simple or present continuous page 2 of 3 test. While i clean my car, someone suddenly knocked at the door.
Present perfect simple or continuous page 2 of 3 test. Heres another exercise to practise the verb tenses. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 2 grammarbank. Past simple and past continuous inspiration macmillan. Past continuous is used to describe action that were in progress still happening not finished at a certain time in the past. Questions in the past continuous english grammar exercises. We can use either the present perfect simple or continuous for situations that started in the past and still continue. Irregular verbs exercise 2 perfect english grammar. These are exercises to rewrite sentences and make questions for the answers given. Write the words in brackets in the correct forms in english using past continuous tense.
Worksheet 2 past simple and past continuous 1 complete the sentences with the correct past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Home grammar verb tenses simple past and past progressive exercise about we are dedicated to creating and providing free, highquality english language learning resources. I to eat was eating cornflakes while dad to read was reading the newspaper. Complete these questions using the simple past interrogative. Its to practise the second 25 of my list of 50 common verbs. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 2 answers.
Heres an interactive exercise about the past simple and past continuous. I began to study at nine last night and i was still studying at eleven. Past continuous and past simple grammar beginner to. Past simple and continuous exercises pdf ejercicios ingles online. Click here to download this exercise in pdf with answers. Finally, click here to download the exercise in pdf with answers.
Download past simple or past continuous exercises in pdf. Were you watching watch the football match on tv when i phoned phone. Past simple and past continuous pdf exercises with answers. Complete the sentences with the past simple or the past continuous forms of the verbs in brackets.
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