Grammar Quiz

Past Continuous Tense Quizzes


Preview 20 Quizzes about Past Continuous Tense

The blue team ____________ before the event started.

A. warms up

B. is warmed up

C. were warming up

D. was warming up


The boys __________ in the badminton court yesterday afternoon.

A. is playing

B. was playing

C. were playing


My brother and sister _____ tennis at 11am yesterday.(Past Continuous form of “play”)

A. was playing

B. are playing

C. were playing


While my grandparents __________ dumplings, I __________ cookies.

A. made…was baking

B. were making…baked

C. were making…was baking

D. had made…baked


I saw Rene yesterday when she ___________ by the seaside.

A. was walking

B. is walking

C. am walking

D. walked


__________ you _______________ glances at each other during the class?

A. Were, exchanging

B. Was, exchanging

C. Were, exchange

D. Was, exchange


All yesterday morning my parents______.

A. are sleeping

B. were sleeping

C. slept

D. sleeping


My brother and sister _____ playing tennis at 11am yesterday. 

A. was

B. are

C. were


My parents ____ (work) when I came home.

A. was work

B. were work

C. was working

D. were working


The football players were playing while

A. The crowd was cheering
B. The policeman arrived


Lindsay and her three friends _____________ hide and seek when the gardener finished his task.

A. played

B. is playing

C. were playing

D. plays


When the taxi arrived, the friends ____ ____ goodbye.

A. was say

B. were saying

C. were say

D. was saying


Mr. Thompson ____________________ (drive) to work in his new car yesterday morning.

A. is driving

B. was driving

C. were driving


Were the students … the video during class?

  1. watching
  2. watch


Somebody threw a shoe at him _____ he was speaking.

A. after

B. when

C. before


We __________ dinner last night when we heard a loud explosion.

A. are having

B. had had

C. had been having

D. were having


_____ you _____ football at 2 PM ?

A. Were, playing

B. Was, playing

C. Are, playing

D. Do, playing


All of you _____________just now.

A. was hiding 

B. is hiding 

C. are hiding 

D. were hiding 


At 7 this morning he … breakfast with his kids.

  1. was eating
  2. is eating


My mother …………………. an e-mail while he ……………… his suitcase.

A. was receiving/was packing

B. received/was packing

C. received/packed

D. was receiving/packed


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