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Past Simple and Past Continuous Worksheet With Key NEOLMS

The document provides a key to circle the correct verb forms in sentences using the past simple and past continuous tenses. It then provides example sentences for students to practice putting verbs in the appropriate past tense. The answer key provides the correct responses.

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Past Simple and Past Continuous Worksheet With Key NEOLMS

The document provides a key to circle the correct verb forms in sentences using the past simple and past continuous tenses. It then provides example sentences for students to practice putting verbs in the appropriate past tense. The answer key provides the correct responses.

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  • Exercise Instructions: Provides sentences where the task is to select the suitable verb form and place verbs in correct tenses.
  • Answer Key: Lists the correct answers for the exercise instructions, showing correct verb forms for each sentence.

Circle the correct verb form in each of the following sentences.

a) Mary prepared / was preparing lunch when they came / was coming.
b) Tom was very unlucky. It rained / was raining every day during his holidays.
c) Who was that nice girl you talked / were talking to when I walked / was walking by the pub?
d) Last weekend Susan fell / was falling and broke/ was breaking her leg.
e) When I entered / was entering the cafeteria Mary had / was having lunch with Peter.
f) We drove/ were driving to Berlin in Robert´s new car.
g) The sun shone / was shining brightly when I got up / was getting up this morning.
h) Ann finally told / was telling us the whole story about Peter.

Read the following sentences and put the verbs in brackets in either the Past Simple or the Past
Continuous. Put any other words in brackets in the correct place.

a) As Sophie ___________(walk) up Regent Street she ___________(meet) an old friend from college.
b) When ___________(father/arrive) yesterday?
He ___________(arrive) late. The train ___________(be)delayed due to an accident.
c) Who ___________(you/ speak) to on the phone when I ___________(come)in?
d) Mary ___________(read) in bed when she ___________(hear) a strange noise downstairs.
e) When Mr. Lawrence ___________(leave) home at 8.30 this morning, the sun ___________(shine)
brightly. However, by 10 o´clock it ___________(rain) heavily.
f) Sebastian ___________(arrive) at Susan´s house a little before 11 a.m., but she ___________(not/be)
there. She ___________(study) at the library.
g) The fireman ___________(rescue) a 75-year-old woman who ___________(be) trapped on the
second floor of the burning building.
h) ___________(you/do) any shopping yesterday?
i) Yesterday Jane ___________(fall) and ___________(hurt) herself when she ___________(ride) her
bicycle.
j) What ___________(Peter / do) when you ___________(knock) on his door?
k) Helen ___________(wear) her dress to the party last night.
ANSWER KEY:

1.

a. was preparing…came

b. rained

c. were talking…was walking

d. fell…broke

e. entered…was having

f. drove

g. was shining…got up

h. told

2.

a. was walking…met

b. did her father arrive?...arrived…was

c. were you speaking…came

d. was reading…heard

e. felt…was shining…rained

f. arrived…wasn’t…was studying

g. rescued…was

h. did you go

i. fell…hurt…was riding

j. was Peter doing…knocked

k. wore

2.

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