I looked out of the window and saw that people were walking in the park. Past continuous interactive and downloadable worksheet. Present continuous, past continuous and future continuous. It was time for lunch, so we stopped at a restaurant. I met meet tom and ann at the airport a few weeks ago. Fill in the blanks with the present continuous or simple present. Click here to download this exercise in pdf with answers. Simple present vs present continuous 5 grammarbank. Spelling rules click on the image exercise 1 write was or were. Exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise 3 exercise 4 exercise 5 exercise 6.
Simple past worksheets english online grammar exercises. Past continuous and past simple grammar principiante a. Its something youll use a lot, so id suggest you make sure you know it perfectly. Complete the text using present simple or continuous. Put in the verb in brackets into the gaps and form affirmative sentences in past progressive. Pdf exercises worksheets with answers on the past continuous tense. Try making the past continuous or past progressive tense this exercise includes the positive and negative forms. So by just knowing past continuous tense formula one cannot just understand the differences between both these tenses. I saw see sue in town yesterday but she was looking look the other way. I used my time well while i wait was waiting for my plane i wrote some emails. Past continuous we use the past continuous the set the scene in a story.
Past simple vs past continuous here are some exercises to practise. Past continuous tense mcq grammar quiz test exercise. Do not pay attention to the translation into latvian. Simple past vs past continuous exercise grammarbank. Exercise 5 choose the best answer exercise 6 complete possessive pronouns. Beginner change each sentence into the past continuous tense. We had have a chat while we were waiting waited wait for our flights. Past progressive practice complete the following sentences using the correct form of the past progressive tense of the verbs provided. Yesterday i went to the post office, bought some fruit at the supermarket and read a book in the park in the afternoon. Exercise 4 write the answer exercise 5 use the words to make sentences exercise 6 negative form exercise 7 questions exercise 8. This exercise doesnt include be but instead has a variety of other verbs most of them are quite easy verbs at the moment its good to concentrate on grammar, and then think about vocabulary at another. Past simple and past continuous cambridge university press.
They were going go to berlin and i was going go to madrid. S house personal pronouns exercise 1 complete exercise 2 choose the best answer. Choose simple past or past continuous tense to complete the sentences. When the teacher came in, they were studying english. Students project fourth edition level 1 unit 6 grammar exercise 5. I to take took a shower, then i to get dressed got dressed and to leave left. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 answers. Last month i was on holiday in ireland with my mum and dad. Exercise 5 use the correct subject pronoun adverbs of frequency. Structurethe regular verbs form the past simple by adding ed to the base form of the verb. Past continuous exercise 1 perfect english grammar. Answers to past simple or past continuous exercise 2 1. Hello, i am a future english teacher who came to check these exercises to have, more or less, an idea of how to prepare an activity with a past continuous, since that is the topic that my students will see, and i resolved it, and there is specifically an exercise number 5 that tells me that i did it wrong when it clearly is not so because the answer i put is the one that later tells me that. We watching tv they swimming was 2 write questions.
This next link will help you revise some verbs in the past. The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in the present. Past continuous tense mcq grammar quiz test exercise 18 free online english grammar quizzes tests exercises about past continuous tense mcq grammar quiz test exercise. We use the past continuous tense to talk about actions and situations that were in progress around a particular past time. Choose the present simple or the present continuous tense to complete the sentences.
No sir, i was not talking on my cell phone i was watching a tv show on my ipod past continuous. Simple past worksheets free english online grammar exercises. Check the answers to this exercise on past perfect tense write the words in brackets in the correct forms in english using past continuous tense. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 grammarbank.
Complete the sentences in present continuous with the. We were playing volleyball with mary when you called me. Download past simple or past continuous exercises in pdf. I to eat was eating cornflakes while dad to read was reading the newspaper. As i was walking in the streets of holland, i met an old friend of mine. Worksheet 2 past continuous i using my mobile phone you listening to music he eating a sandwich at 8pm. Were you watching watch the football match on tv when i phoned phone.
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. Complete the sentences with the past simple or the past continuous forms of the verbs in brackets. They were standing stand on the corner when i saw them. Past continuous tense is very important and past continuous exercises are as important as it is. Past simple and continuous exercises pdf ejercicios ingles online. Last night i was walking home and listening to my ipod when the sun was shinning and lots of tourists were lying on the beach.
Past continuous interactive worksheet worksheets samples esl lessons, english lessons, learn english. Simple past english tenses and english grammar worksheets, grammar rules, grammar exercises. Present continuous, past continuous and future continuous tense worksheet by manjusha nambiar october 30, 2017 this grammar worksheet is designed for students of classes 4 and 5. Explanations and examples along with tests and exercises online to practise englis grammar. Past continuous 1 what was marian doing at a particular time. Past continuous tense worksheet english practice learn. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf. It was raining when we came out of the shopping centre. Suddenly we use the past continuous for actions in progress in the past or longer actions interrupted by shorter actions in past simple. Students often get confuse in past continuous tense that whether they have to use waswere or isamare. The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in. Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers. The fullstop is already at the end of the sentence.
The car came out of the side road and then the van drove into the back of it. I n te r m e d i a te g r a m m a r e x e r c i s e. Irregular verbs have a different form, usually with a different vowel sound e. This next link will help you revise some verbs in the past tense. Past simple and past continuous 5 complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. This exercise is about making past simple questions.
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