Englivio Worksheets
Past Continuous Mastery
Actions in Progress at a Specific Past Time
1. Which sentence is in the Past Continuous tense?
2. Fill in: “They ___ playing cards when the lights went out.”
3. What is the negative form for ‘She’?
4. Question form: “___ it raining when you left?”
5. Which word is often used to introduce a shorter interrupting action?
6. Which word is often used to show two simultaneous past actions?
7. “At midnight, we ___.”
8. “I ___ about you when you called.”
9. “The birds ___ in the trees.” (Background description)
10. “What ___ you doing at 10 o’clock last night?”
11. True or False: We use ‘was’ with the pronouns I, He, She, and It.
12. True or False: Past Continuous is for actions that finished quickly.
13. True or False: You can use Past Continuous to set the scene of a story.
14. True or False: “While I was washing the dishes, the phone rang” is correct.
15. True or False: Stative verbs (like ‘need’) are common in this tense.
16. True or False: “They was playing” is grammatically correct.
17. Choose the correct form: “While he ___ lunch, his friend arrived.”
18. “I ___ a book when I heard the crash.”
19. Which action was already in progress? “He was sleeping when the alarm rang.”
20. Identify the mistake: “We was walking in the park yesterday.”
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