Past Continuous Tense Exercises PDF

The past continuous tense is used in sentences to indicate actions that were happening at some time in the past. It can be written in the following format – subject + was/were + verb+ing + the rest of the sentence. The verbs ‘was’ and ‘were’ are used as helping verbs. ‘Was’ is used...

The past continuous tense is used in sentences to indicate actions that were happening at some time in the past. It can be written in the following format – subject + was/were + verb+ing + the rest of the sentence. The verbs ‘was’ and ‘were’ are used as helping verbs. ‘Was’ is used with singular nouns, the first-person pronoun (I) and third-person singular pronouns (he, she, it) and ‘were’ is used with plural nouns, the first-person plural pronoun (we), the second-person pronoun (you) and the third-person plural pronoun (they). Exercise 1 – Fill in the blanks Fill in the blanks with the past continuous form of the verbs given in brackets. 1. The children ____ hide and seek in the park. (play) 2. They ____ to the movies. (go) 3. I ___ the book you gave me on my birthday. (read) 4. Winnie _____ her new dress. (stitch) 5. The dogs ____ all night. (bark) 6. Ron ___ his room when he heard the noise. (clean) 7. It ___ darker with each passing moment. (get) 8. The gardener ____ the lawn. (water) 9. The army ___ to Ladakh when the enemy attacked them. (go) 10. My sister ____ a Royal Enfield yesterday. (ride) 11. The students ____ on their assignments. (work) 12. That boy ____ in class. (dance) 13. The kid ____ television all evening. (watch) 14. The girl ____ to rock music. (listen) 15. The birds ____ in the sky. (fly) Ecercise 2 – Change into the past continuous tense Read the following sentences and change them into the past continuous tense. 1. Raj drinks coffee. 2. Sweta is singing her favourite song. 3. Siraj left home. 4. My friends played on the field. 5. I will be going to France. 6. The boy cried all night. 7. The cat ran in the streets. 8. I performed at the school function. 9. The parrot talked back. 10. Tia will visit her granny.