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Past Simple or Past Continuous 2

This document provides 20 sentences for a past simple or past continuous tense exercise. Students are asked to choose whether each sentence should be in the past simple or past continuous tense. Some examples include "He ____(sleep) when the doorbell ____(ring)" and "We ____(eat) dinner at 8pm last night". The sentences cover a variety of situations involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past.

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Past Simple or Past Continuous 2

This document provides 20 sentences for a past simple or past continuous tense exercise. Students are asked to choose whether each sentence should be in the past simple or past continuous tense. Some examples include "He ____(sleep) when the doorbell ____(ring)" and "We ____(eat) dinner at 8pm last night". The sentences cover a variety of situations involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past.

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Past Simple or Past Continuous Exercise 2

Choose the past simple or past continuous:

1. He __________________ (sleep) when the doorbell __________________ (ring).

2. We __________________ (eat) dinner at 8pm last night (we started eating at 7:30).

3. Yesterday I __________________ (go) to the post office, __________________ (buy)

some fruit at the supermarket and __________________ (read) a book in the park in

the afternoon.

4. We __________________ (watch) TV when we __________________ (hear) a loud

noise.

5. Julie __________________ (be) in the garden when Laurence __________________

(arrive).

6. A: What __________________ (you / do) at 3pm yesterday?

B: I __________________ (clean) my house.

7. Last year I __________________ (visit) Paris and Rome.

8. They __________________ (have) dinner when the police __________________

(come) to the door.

9. He __________________ (work) in the garden when he __________________ (find)

the money.

10. Laura __________________ (study) at 11pm last night.

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11. I __________________ (walk) along the road when I __________________ (meet) an

old friend.

12. It __________________ (be) a day in December. Snow __________________ (fall),

children __________________ (sing) carols and people __________________ (do)

their Christmas shopping.

13. My ex-boyfriend __________________ (be) so annoying! He __________________

(always / miss) the bus and __________________ (arrive) late.

14. When I __________________ (call) Julie, she __________________ (work).

15. Why __________________ (you / cry) when I __________________ (arrive)?

16. When he __________________ (get) home, we started to eat dinner.

17. At 10am yesterday I __________________ (sit) on a bus.

18. I __________________ (enjoy) my book so much that I __________________ (not /

notice) the train had stopped.

19. David __________________ (not / sleep) when I __________________ (arrive), he

__________________ (study)!

20. Mr Black __________________ (not / work) in the garden at 10pm last night.

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