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Exercise 3 - Past Simple or Continuous?

Friday, 18 June 2010
Example: while I read... Example: while I read... Designed by Freepik

English grammar exercise on-line for elementary level students for the past continuous. Choosing the correct form of the verbs.

1) While I read / was reading, my mother was washing the dishes.

2) Tom played / was playing football yesterday.

3) She turned/ was turning off the lights and went / was going to bed.

4) Yesterday at 7 o'clock, we played / were playing tennis.

5) We waited / were waiting for Susan, when my father came round the corner.