Review how to use the past simple here and how to use the past continuous here.
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Choose Past Simple or Past Continuous 2
Make the past simple or past continuous tense.
1) We (eat) dinner at 8pm last night (we started eating at 7:30). [ . ] | |
2) Yesterday I (go) to the Post Office, (buy) some fruit at the supermarket and (read) a book in the park in the afternoon. [ . ][ . ][ . ] | |
3) We (watch) TV when we (hear) a loud noise. [ . ][ . ] | |
4) Julie (be) in the garden when Laurence (arrive). [ . ][ . ] | |
5) A: What (do) at 3pm yesterday? B: I (clean) my house. [ . ][ . ] | |
6) Last year I (visit) Paris and Rome. [ . ] | |
7) They (have) dinner when the police (come) to the door. [ . ][ . ] | |
8) He (work) in the garden when he (find) the money. [ . ][ . ] | |
9) Laura (study) at 11pm last night. [ . ] | |
10) He (sleep) when the doorbell (ring). [ . ][ . ] | |
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 arriving late. [ . ][ . ] | |
14) When I (call) Julie, she (work). [ . ][ . ] | |
15) Why (cry) when I (arrive)? [ . ][ . ] | |
16) When he (get) home we started to eat dinner. [ . ] | |
17) At 10 am yesterday, I (sit) on a bus. [ . ] | |
18) I (enjoy) my book so much that I (not/notice) that 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. [ . ] |