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The document contains a test on the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes exercises to complete sentences using the correct verb forms, as well as a passage to fill in verbs in the past simple or past continuous. The test covers common uses of these tenses including actions that were ongoing alongside other events in the past.

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Past Simple Vs Past Continuous Test Grammar Guides Tests - 84131

The document contains a test on the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes exercises to complete sentences using the correct verb forms, as well as a passage to fill in verbs in the past simple or past continuous. The test covers common uses of these tenses including actions that were ongoing alongside other events in the past.

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Name__________________________

Past Simple vs. Past Continuous (test)


4) Complete the sentences with
the correct verb forms: past
simple or past continuous.
Total: _________ /
100 1. When Jim _________ (arrive) home,
Delia ___________________ (wait) for him.
Complete the sentences. Use the past
2 The students _________________ (chat)
simple form of the verbs in brackets. when the teacher ___________________
(come) in.
3 While Nick __________________ (drive)
home, he_____________ (see) an accident.
1. Eric __________ (post) the letter yesterday. 4 Mary _______________ (read) a magazine
2. My friends ___________ (go) to see a tennis when her phone __________________
tournament two days ago. (ring).
3. They ______________ (not have) dinner at 5 The lights _________________ (go) off
home last Sunday. while Sarah ________________ (watch) a
4. Why ________he __________ (miss) school film.
last week? 6 It _______________ (rain) when John and
5. ________you ________ (do) the washing-up Mary _________________ (go) out.
last night? 7 My little sister ____________ (eat) three
biscuits while our mother
6. Who _________ he _________ (come) to the
__________________ (not/ look).
party with?
8 The sun _________________ (shine) one
1 morning, so they _______________ (decide)
2 to go to the park.
p
2) Complete the sentences. Use the 34p
past continuous form of the verbs
below.
3)Fill in the gaps in the text with the
Total: Total: 60
verbs in past simple or past
1. Ann (stand)__________________ next to the continuous.
dog when it bit her.
We were all at the beach last Sunday at half
2. Ted (not/work) _________________ because it past three. Our friend Mark was in the water. He
was a holiday. ____ _________ (swim) in the 800-metre race, and
3. Could you repeat that, please? Sorry, I he was in first place. Lots of his schoolmates
(not/listen)________________________________ _____________________ (watch) the race and
. they ________________________ (shout) his
4. We (swim)_____________________ near the name: ‘Mark! Mark!’
beach when Jane saw a shark. Suddenly, he _____________________
(realise) they ____________________ (say)
5. Which programme _________ she
something different. It _______________ (sound)
_______________(watch) on TV?
14 like ‘Shark! Shark!’
p He _____________________ (look) over
his shoulder and _________________ (see) an
enormous shark. Then Mark really
_______________ (swim) fast! He thinks he
__________________ (break) the world record!
30
p
KEY

Exercise 1)
+ed : looked, played, worked +d : danced, lived, loved, liked
y ied : carried, tried, studied, cried double consonant: robbed, nodded, stopped,
irregular verbs: buy-bought, lie - lay, wake – woke, fly - flew, cut - cut

Exercise 2)
1–d 2 – id 3 – t 4 – id 5–t 6–t 7 – id 8–d

Exercise 3)
1 posted 2 went 3 didn’t have 4 did he miss 5 Did you do 6 did he come

Exercise 4)
1 was standing 2 wasn’t working 3 wasn’t listening 4 were swimming 5 was she watching

Exercise 5)
We were all at the beach last Sunday at half past three. Our friend Mark was in the water. He 1 was
swimming in the 400-metre race, and he was in first place.
Lots of his schoolmates 2 were watching the race and they 3 were shouting his name:
‘Mark! Mark!’Suddenly, he 4 realised they 5 were saying something different. It 6
sounded like ‘Shark! Shark!’ He 7 looked over his shoulder and 8 saw an enormous shark.
Then Mark really 9 swam fast!
He thinks he 10 broke the world record!

Exercise 6)

1 arrived, was waiting


2 were chatting, came in
3 was driving, saw
4 was reading, rang
5 went off, was watching
6 was raining, went out
7 ate, wasn’t looking
8 was shining, decided

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