Past Continuous exercise
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Past Continuous exercise. Write the words in brackets in the correct forms in English using Past Continuous Tense.
1. He
all day yesterday. (
rest
)
2. We
through the window when mother came in. (
look
)
3. They
a newspaper when I entered. (
read
)
4. I
to her but she. didn't hear me. (
speak
)
5. I didn't go for a walk because it
. (
rain
)
6. When you telephoned I
my room. (
sweep
)
7. They
with John's wife when I came in. (
talk
)
8. While we
we heard a shot. (
play
)
9. She
along the embankment when I met her yesterday. (
walk
)
10. We
home when, it started to snow. (
go
)
11. I
very hard when he called. (
study
)
12. She
when his friend arrived. (
sleep
)
13. They
to the lecture when the light went off. (
listen
)
14. She still
when we returned home. (
work
)
15. When he
his garden he found a silver coin. (
dig
)
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