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Past Simple and Past Continuous

1. The document provides examples to choose between using the simple past or past progressive tenses in sentences. 2. It then provides sentences where the verbs need to be changed to either the simple past or past progressive form. 3. The document is helping to practice the correct use of the simple past versus past progressive tenses in the English language.

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Past Simple and Past Continuous

1. The document provides examples to choose between using the simple past or past progressive tenses in sentences. 2. It then provides sentences where the verbs need to be changed to either the simple past or past progressive form. 3. The document is helping to practice the correct use of the simple past versus past progressive tenses in the English language.

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Simple past or past progressive

1. Choose the correct option.

a. What did you do / were you doing this time yesterday? I worked / was working
on the computer.
b. It suddenly began / was beginning to rain while Laura sat / was sitting in the
garden.
c. Sam took / was taking a photograph of me while I didn’t look / wasn’t looking.
d. When I saw / was seeing them, they tried / were trying to find a new house near
their work.
e. I walked / was walking along the street when I suddenly felt / was feeling
something hit me in the back. I didn’t know / wasn’t knowing what it was.
f. Last night I dropped / was dropping a plate when I did / was doing the washing
up. Fortunately, it didn’t break / wasn’t breaking.

2. Put the verbs into the correct form, the Past Progressive or Simple Past.

a. When I last (see) _____________ them, they (try) _________________ to find


a new flat near the office.
b. I (walk) ______________ along the street when I suddenly (feel)____________
something hit me in the back.
c. When we (drive) ______________ down the hill, a strange object (appear)
____________ in the sky.
d. How fast (she/drive) ________________ when the accident (happen)
____________?
e. My mother (wait) ________________ for me when I (come) _____________
home.
f. Mrs. Smith (invite) _______________ Mrs. Quyen to have dinner while Mrs.
Quyen (visit) ______________ the USA.
g. I (not want) _______________ to go with him because I (wait) ____________
for a phone call.
h. The doorbell (ring) ______________ while Tom (watch) _______________ TV.
i. It suddenly (begin) ________________ to rain while Linda (sit)
________________ in the garden.
j. The lights (go) ______________ out while we (have) _______________ dinner.
k. Last night I (read) ______________ when suddenly I (hear) ________________
a shout.
l. The postman (come) ______________ while I (have) ______________lunch.
m. When we (go) _____________ out, it (rain) _____________________.
n. (you/watch) _______________ TV when I (phone) _______________you?
o. We (meet) ________________Ann at the party yesterday, she (wear)
_____________ a lovely white dress.
p. The boys (break) ________________ the window while they (play)
_____________ football.
q. I was home late, but my friends (wait) ________________ when I (arrive)
_____________.
r. He said that he (not drive) ________________ fast when the accident
(happen) _______________.
s. Tom (fall) ______________off the ladder while he (paint) ______________the
ceiling.
t. What (you/do) _____________________ at this time yesterday.

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