Past Continuous Exercises
Past Continuous exercises covering affirmative and negative forms, questions, time expressions, interrupted actions with 'when', parallel actions with 'while', background descriptions in narratives, and comparison with Past Simple. 2 exercise sets with 40 questions (A1 Level).
Past Continuous exercises: choose your exercise set
Start with Multiple Choice to build confidence with Past Continuous exercises, or try Worksheet to practice all questions on one page.
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Why practice Past Continuous exercises?
These Past Continuous exercises take you from basics to confident usage. Start with affirmative sentences (was/were + -ing), then master negatives and questions. You'll learn to describe actions in progress at a specific moment in the past, understand how to use 'when' for interrupted actions and 'while' for parallel actions, practise setting the scene in narratives, and finally compare Past Continuous with Past Simple to know exactly when to use each tense.