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Exercise on Past Progressive

Put the verbs into the correct form (past progressive).

  1. When I phoned my friends, they (play) monopoly.
  2. Yesterday at six I (prepare) dinner.
  3. The kids (play) in the garden when it suddenly began to rain.
  4. I (practise) the guitar when he came home.
  5. We (not / cycle) all day.
  6. While Aaron (work) in his room, his friends (swim) in the pool.
  7. I tried to tell them the truth but they (listen / not) .
  8. What (you / do) yesterday?
  9. Most of the time we (sit) in the park.