English tenses: Past simple Past continuous exercises, verbs

English grammar – test 1, exercise 1

Choose the correct tense.

As the stranger to the station, a car behind him.

My grandma TV. But she books.

When work? I at 6 o'clock.

He and the light.

When I my homework, I dinner.

While we to the news, the telephone .

Kate and it.

As I to work last Friday, a car in front of me.

What when you it?

I on the brakes.

Yesterday Carrol letters from 10 to 11 and then from 5 to 7 again.

We arrived in Cannes at 2.30 and the sun .

People on the beach and big yachts near the harbour.

We our car and to the beach.

Try more Past simple Past continuous exercises. See also our irregular verbs list and other English tenses and sentence structures online or in esl printables and English worksheets.

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Past simple and continuous exercises

English grammar – test 1, exercise 1