This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Continuous Tense – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Continuous Tense Quiz 5 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Hello Anna, what ..... (you / do) when I called you last night? A) Did you do. B) Do you do. C) Didn't do. D) Were you doing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Were you doing. 2. Past continuous tense digunakan dalam menyatakan suatu aktifitas yang ..... A) Merupakan kebiasaan di masa lalu. B) Sudah terjadi di masa lalu. C) Berulang-ulang di masa lalu. D) Sedang berlangsung di masa lalu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sedang berlangsung di masa lalu. 3. She ..... at 5 p.m. yesterday. A) Was working. B) Were working. C) Working. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was working. 4. He was standing at the bus-stop when he ..... the accident. A) Witnessed. B) Witnesses. C) Withnessed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Witnessed. 5. Yesterday, at 11:00 o'clock, I ..... football. A) Am playing. B) Playing. C) Was playing. D) Was play. E) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was playing. 6. The Teacher ..... in while pupils ..... A) Came/was talking. B) Came/were talking. C) Came/ talked. D) Came/ talking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Came/were talking. 7. How do you form the Past Continuous Tense for plural subjects? A) Use 'are' + verb(-ing). B) Use 'were' + verb(-ing). C) Use 'was' + verb(-ing). D) Use 'have' + verb(-ing). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use 'were' + verb(-ing). 8. Pilihlah bentuk V$_{2 }$yang sesuai untuk kata berikut ini.put A) Putted. B) Put. C) Puted. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Put. 9. Which time expression is used with the past continuous tense to indicate a repeated action in the past? A) Never. B) Sometimes. C) Rarely. D) Always. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Always. 10. You ..... writing beautiful poems in the past. A) Have. B) Will be. C) Are. D) Could. E) Were. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Were. 11. Choose the verb form that correctly completes the sentence. Stative verbs, like 'believe', are usually not used in continuous tenses. A) Did believe. B) Believed. C) Were believing. D) Was believing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Believed. 12. $^{Choose the correct form of the verb in }$$^{"Past Continuous Tense" .}$$^{}$She ..... (talk) on the phone when I arrived. A) Was talking. B) Were talking. C) Was talked. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was talking. 13. Xiu Li and Farah ..... to school at seven o'clock yesterday morning. A) Walks. B) Was walking. C) Walked. D) Were walking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Were walking. 14. Mr.Chaniago ..... Writing our score last week A) Is. B) Were. C) Was. D) Are. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was. 15. I was reading a book while my brother ..... the piano. A) Were playing. B) Are playing. C) Is playing. D) Was playing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was playing. 16. Complete the sentence:At 8 p.m. last night, I ..... a good book in my room. A) Am reading. B) Read. C) Were reading. D) Was reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was reading. 17. At 6 p.m. last night, I ..... having dinner with my friend's family. A) Was. B) Were. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 18. Raining/ was/ it/ yesterday evening? A) It was raining yesterday evening?. B) Was raining it yesterday evening?. C) Yesterday it was raining evening?. D) Was it raining yesterday evening?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was raining yesterday evening?. 19. Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form in the past continuous tense:Dean didn't go out yesterday because it ..... all day. A) Were raining. B) Was raining. C) Raining. D) Is raining. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was raining. 20. We ..... television when the telephone rang. A) Watched. B) Were watching. C) Watch. D) Was watching. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were watching. 21. I was listening to the radio when you ..... (call) me. A) Called. B) Calt. C) Were calling. D) Was calling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Called. 22. Hafidz ..... buying some stuffs in the market this morning. A) Was. B) Were. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 23. How do you correctly make this sentence negative? 'She was practicing the guitar.' A) She didn't was practicing the guitar. B) She was practice not the guitar. C) She not was practicing the guitar. D) She wasn't practicing the guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She wasn't practicing the guitar. 24. The photographer took Johnson's pictures while he ..... a certificate. A) Was receiving. B) Receives. C) Is receiving. D) Received. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was receiving. 25. Were they ..... (eat) in the restaurant on the corner? A) Eat. B) Eating. C) Eated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eating. 26. The people ..... eating in the restaurant when the storm started. A) Were eating. B) Ate. C) Were eat. D) Eating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were eating. 27. True or False:The word 'while' is often used to connect two long actions that were happening at the same time, like in 'I was doing my homework while my brother was playing video games.' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 28. Lia was ..... (make) beef noodles at midnight. A) Make. B) Making. C) Makeing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Making. 29. Hasan ..... a song A) Is singing. B) Are singing. C) Was singing. D) Were singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was singing. 30. ..... the athletes going to the gym last Saturday afternoon? A) Did. B) Was. C) Do. D) Were. 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