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Past Simple or Past Continuous Exercises

The document provides examples of sentences with verbs in the past simple or past continuous tenses. It includes 7 examples of sentences with verbs conjugated to the appropriate past tense forms to demonstrate how to put verbs in the past simple or past continuous.

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Past Simple or Past Continuous Exercises

The document provides examples of sentences with verbs in the past simple or past continuous tenses. It includes 7 examples of sentences with verbs conjugated to the appropriate past tense forms to demonstrate how to put verbs in the past simple or past continuous.

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Put the verbs into Past simple or past continuous.

1. He-------------- (walk) along the street. It was 5 p.m. The late


autumn sun ------------------------(shine). He --------------- (think) about
the case. Something in it was wrong. A detail or two ----------------
(not/match). He ---------------- (not/notice) that it ----------------- (start)
to rain.

2. At 5 p.m. yesterday Mark ------------------- (sit) in the


cinema. He --------------------- (drink) Coca Cola and he ------------------
(eat) popcorn. The film was so exciting that he ---------------- (not/notice)
how he ---------------- (upset) the popcorn packet onto the floor.

3. At 5 p.m. yesterday Ted ---------------- (sit) on the float. He


was rather scared because a shark --------------- (circle) around and
around the float. Luckily some tourists who ----------------- (fly) in a
helicopter -------------- (see) him. They-------------- (call) the rescue team
and they ------------(rescue) Ted.

4. Mr and Mrs Twotoes -------------- (walk) along the beach


with their dog Claw. Suddenly the wind --------------- (start) to blow. It
-------------- (lift) an old plastic bag from the ground. Claw the dog
-------------- (want) to catch it. It ----------------(run) from one side to the
other. Then it suddenly ----------------(run) out of sight.

5. Jeremy and Pamela -------------- (dance) exuberantly when


their children ---------------- (come) home. They ---------------(explain) that
the music on the radio was so good that they----------------- (can) not sit on
the sofa. So they ---------------- (start) to dance.

6. Nick ---------------(sneeze) so violently that he -------------


(fall) off his chair. The people who -------------- (sit) in the room with him
------------(get) a terrible fright. As Nick ---------------- (sit) on the floor,
however, they --------------------- (start) to laugh.

7. At 5 p.m. last Sunday Luke and his father were in the garden.
They ------------------ (fly) a kite. The wind ----------------(blow) nicely, the
sun---------------- (shine), it was warm. It was a perfect day. At 5:30
mother------------------------- (call) them in to have dinner.

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