Past Tense Exercise for Learners

The document provides examples of sentences using either the past simple or past continuous tenses and asks the reader to choose which tense is correct for each sentence. There are 13 sentences as examples covering a variety of situations that occurred in the past, including actions that were ongoing and those that were completed.

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Past Simple or Past Continuous?

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.
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).

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