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Try making the past continuous (or past progressive) tense - this exercise includes the positive and negative forms. Click here to review how to make the past continuous.
Past simple and past progressive tenses - grammar exercises online for esl. Index of contents Past continuous - 1 Past continuous - 2 Simple past vs continuous Home
Past continuous / past progressive: worksheets, printable exercises pdf, handouts and resources to print. Past simple and past continuous grammar exercises
The past continuous tense is used in sentences to indicate actions that were happening at some time in the past. It can be written in the following format – subject + was/were + verb+ing + the rest of the sentence. The verbs ‘was’ and ‘were’ are used as helping verbs. ‘Was’ is used with singular nouns, the first-person pronoun (I ...
Exercise on Past Progressive. Put the verbs into the correct form (past progressive). When I phoned my friends, they (play) monopoly. Yesterday at six I (prepare) dinner. The kids (play) in the garden when it suddenly began to rain. I (practise) the guitar when he came home. We (not / cycle) all day. While Aaron (work) in his room, his friends ...
The past continuous is made from the past tense of the verb be and the –ing form of a verb: We use the past continuous to talk about the past: for something which happened before and after another action: The children were doing their homework when I got home. Compare: The children did their homework when (= after) I got home.
Here's an exercise to practise the verb tenses. Choose the past simple or past continuous tense. You can review how to use the past simple here and how to use the past continuous here. Finally, click here to download this exercise in PDF with answers.
