GRAMMAR
Complete these sentences by using the past continuous or the
1. We are going (go) to Dharamsala next week.
2. Ashish
(clean) his room when his friends
arrived.
3. Robin
(skate)
when he broke his leg.
4.
it
(rain) when
you
reached Chennai?
5. Mukul and Sania
(take) dance classes
these days.
6. Alena
(feel) better now.
present continuous forms of the verbs given in the brackets.
Answers
Answer:
Simple past and past continuous tense: exercise
FEBRUARY 5, 2013 - pdf
Complete the following sentences using appropriate simple past or past continuous forms.
Hints
To talk about a shorter action that happened in the middle of a longer action, we use the simple past. To talk about two longer actions that were progressing at the same time, we use the past continuous.
1. As I …………………… (open) my eyes, I ………………… (see) a strange sight.
2. While you …………………… .. (play) in the garden, I ………………… (work).
3. As I …………………… . (walk) down the street, I ………………….. Ann driving a Ferrari.
4. While they …………………….. (work) in the backyard, someone …………………… .. (break) into the house.
5. When I was a child, we …………………… .. (live) in Singapore.
6. When I …………………… . (sit) under the tree, an apple ………………… (fall) on my head.
7. She ………………… (look) at me as if she …………………… .. (know) me.
Answers
1. As I opened my eyes, I saw a strange sight.
2. While you were playing in the garden I was working.
3. As I was walking down the street, I saw Ann driving a Ferrari.
4. While they were working in the backyard, someone broke into the house.
5. When I was a child, we lived in Singapore.
6. When I was sitting under the tree an apple fell on my head.
7. She looked at me as if she knew me.
Answer:
1- gone
2-cleaned
3-scated
4-rained
5-taken
6-feeled
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