Friday, 24 November 2017

Past Continuous exercises



Yesterday at 3 pm the following people were in the middle of an action.
Write affirmative sentences
using the past continuous.
  1. You / play / cards 
  2. Alice / walk / around the lake 
  3. Caron / listen / to the radio 
  4. We / read / a book about Australia 
  5. Linda / look for / her ring 
  6. Fiona and Sam / visit / the castle 
  7. Ben / wash / the car 
  8. Kim and I / wait / in the park 
  9. My sister / feed / the birds 
  10. Greg and Phil / count / their money
But at 5 pm they were doing other things.Write negative sentences using the past continuous.

Mary wants to know what all those people were doing at 3 pm. Write interrogative sentences using the past continuous.



REMEBER!

Exceptions in spelling when adding ingExample
final e is dropped (but: ee is not changed) come – coming
(but: agree – agreeing)
after a short, stressed vowel, the final consonant is doubled sit – sitting
l as final consonant after a vowel is doubled (in British English) travel – travelling
final ie becomes y lie – lying

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