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The Past Continuous Tense

The  past continuous  is used to describe:.

  • past action in progress at a given point in time:  She was still working at eight o’clock yesterday evening. 
  • past action in progress interrupted by another past action:  She was leaving when the phone rang.
  • simultaneous past actions:  While Jane was getting dressed, Tom was enjoying his drink.

Time expressions:

  • at 3 o’clock yesterday
  • all morning
  • the whole day
  • from 6 till 7

Past Continuous and Past Simple

  • We often use the Past Continuous with the Past Simple . We use the Past Simple for a short/complete action: I broke my leg.
  • We use the Past Continuous for a longer activity in progress in the past: I was playing football.
  • Before the Past Continuous we often use when or while : While I was playing football, I broke my leg. I broke my  leg when I was playing football.
  • Before the Past Simple we normally use when : What were you doing when the accident happened?

Exercise 1. Use the verbs in brackets in the Present Continuous or Past Continuous.

  • I (to write) an English exercise now.
  • I (to write) an English exercise at this time yesterday.
  • My little sister (to sleep) now.
  • My little sister (to sleep) at this time yesterday.
  • My friends (not to do) their homework now. They (to play) volleyball.
  • My friends (not to do) their homework at seven o’clock yesterday. They (to play) volleyball.
  • She (to read) the whole evening yesterday.
  • She (not to read) now. She (to go) to school.
  • What you (to do) now? — I (to drink) tea.
  • You (to drink) tea at this time yesterday? — No, I (not to drink) tea at this time yesterday, I (to eat) a banana.
  • My sister is fond of reading. She (to read) the whole evening yesterday, and now she (to read) again.
  • Look! My cat (to play) with a ball.
  • When I went out into the garden, the sun (to shine) and birds (to sing) in the trees.
  • You (to eat) ice cream now?
  • You (to eat) ice cream when I rang you up yesterday?
  • What your father (to do) now?
  • What your father (to do) from eight till nine yesterday?
  • Why she (to cry) now? Why she (to cry) when I saw her yesterday?

Exercise 2. Use the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple or Past Continuous Tense.

  • I (to go) to the cinema yesterday.
  • I (to go) to the cinema at four o’clock yesterday.
  • I (to go) to the cinema when you met me.
  • I (to do) my homework the whole evening yesterday.
  • I (to do) my homework when mother came home.
  • I (to do) my homework yesterday.
  • I (to do) my homework from five till eight yesterday.
  • I (to do) my homework at six o’clock yesterday.
  • I (not to play) the piano yesterday. I (to write) a letter to my friend.
  • I (not to play) the piano at four o’clock yesterday. I (to read) a book.
  • He (not to sleep) when father came home. He (to do) his homework.
  • When I (to go) to school the day before yesterday, I met Mike and Pete. They (to talk) and (to laugh). They told me a funny story. Soon I (to laugh), too. I still (to laugh) when we came to school. After school I (to tell) this story at home. My father and mother (to like) it very much.
  • When we were in the country last summer, I (to go) to the wood one day. In the wood I (to find) a little fox cub. I (to bring) it home. I (to decide) to tame the cub. Every day I (to feed) it and (to take) care of it. I (to tame) it the whole summer. Now the fox cub is quite tame. It lives in my house.
  • I (to play) computer games yesterday.
  • I (to play) computer games at five o’clock yesterday.
  • He (to play) computer games from two till three yesterday.
  • We (to play) computer games the whole evening yesterday.
  • My brother (not to play) tennis yesterday. He (to play) tennis the day before yesterday.
  • My sister (not to play) the piano at four o’clock yesterday. She (to play) the piano the whole evening.
  • . When I came into the kitchen, my mother (to cook). She (to cook) the whole day yesterday.
  • We (to wash) the floor in our flat yesterday. We (to wash) the floor in our flat from three till four yesterday.
  • You (to do) your homework yesterday?
  • You (to do) your homework from eight till ten yesterday?
  • Why she (to sleep) at seven o’clock yesterday?
  • He (to sit) at the table the whole evening yesterday.
  • What Nick (to do) when you came to his place?
  • What you (to do) when I rang you up?
  • I (not to sleep) at nine o’clock yesterday.
  • What he (to do) yesterday? — He (toread) a book.
  • What he (to do) the whole evening yesterday? — He (to read) a book.

Compare these sentences:

  • When mother came home, I was reading .
  • When mother was reading , I came home.

Exercise 3. Use the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple or Past Continuous.

  • When I (to come) home, my little sister (to sleep).
  • When Nick (to come) home, his brother (to play) with his toys.
  • When mother (to come) home, I (to do) my homework.
  • When father (to come) home, Pete (to sleep).
  • When mother (to come) home, the children (to play) on the carpet.
  • When I (to get) up, my mother and father (to drink) tea.
  • When I (to come) to my friend’s place, he (to watch) TV.
  • When I (to see) my friends, they (to play) football.
  • When I (to open) the door, the cat (to sit) on the table.
  • When Kate (to open) the door, the children (to dance) round the Christmas tree.
  • When Tom (to cross) the street, he (to fall)
  • When I (to go) to school, I (to meet) my friend.
  • When we (to go) to the cinema, we (to meet) our grandmother.
  • When grandmother (to go) home, she (to see) many children in the yard.
  • When Henry (to walk) about in the forest, he (to find) a bear cub.
  • When we (to walk) about in the forest, we (to see) a hare.
  • When I (to wash) the floor, I (to find) my old toy under the sofa.
  • When granny (to read) a book on the sofa, she (to fall) asleep.
  • When I (to play) in the yard, I suddenly (to see) my old friend.
  • When Nick (to run) about in the yard, he (to fall).
  • The girl (to cook) dinner when the lights (to go) out. She (to burn) herself.
  • The boy (to hurt) himself while he (to skate).
  • When the woman (to enter) the room, the children (to feed) the goldfish.
  • When I (to visit) my friends in Denmark, I (to buy) two presents for my family.
  • When it (to start) to rain, we (to bathe) in the river.
  • Yesterday at one o’clock I (to have) lunch at the canteen.
  • When he (to come) in, I (to do) my exercises.
  • What you (to do) at eight o’clock yesterday?
  • At this time yesterday I (to go) home.
  • You (to sleep) when I (to go) out.
  • He (to read) on the sofa when I (to come) in and (to sit) down beside him.
  • I (to walk) along the street with my friend when a tram (to pass).
  • She (to look) out of the window when I (to see) her.
  • We (to answer) the teacher’s questions when the headmistress (to enter) the classroom.
  • They (to drink) tea when I (to come) home.
  • He (to walk) along the river when a boat (to pass).
  • The old man (to think) about his plan when he (to fall) asleep.
  • We (to listen) to an interesting lecture yesterday.
  • When I (to enter) the classroom, the teacher (to write) words on the blackboard and the pupils (to copy) them into their exercise books.
  • They (to get) ready to go out when it (to begin) raining.

Exercise 4. Use the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple or Past Continuous.

  • I (to go) to the theatre yesterday. At seven o’clock yesterday I (to go) to the theatre.
  • What you (to do) at 5 o’clock yesterday? — I (to play) the piano.
  • When I (to come) to school, the children (to stand) near the classroom.
  • We (to play) in the yard the whole evening yesterday.
  • When I (to prepare) breakfast in the morning, I (to cut) my finger.
  • Last year I (to go) to the United States.
  • You (to go) to Great Britain last year? — No, I (to go) to France.
  • What you (to do) yesterday? — I (to translate) a very long article.
  • When I (to ring) up my friend, he (to sleep).
  • When grandfather (to watch) TV, he (to fall) asleep.
  • When my friend (to come) to see me, I (to do) my homework.
  • When I (to go) to the stadium, I (to meet) Kate and Ann.
  • When Nick (to call) me yesterday, I (to help) mother.
  • When the children (to walk) through the wood, they (to see) a fox.
  • When I (to come) home, my sister (to wash) the floor.
  • When Mike (to play) in the yard, he (to find) a ball.
  • When I (to draw) yesterday, I (to break) two pencils.
  • When I (to meet) Tom, he (to go) to the shop.
  • When I (to look) out of the window, the children (to play) hide-and-seek.

Exercise 5. Use the verbs in brackets in Past Simple or Past Continuous Tenses.

Pay attention to these sentences:.

  • Father was reading at 7 o’clock yesterday. (the action is in progress – Past Continuous)
  • Father came home at 7 o’clock yesterday. (completed action – Past Simple)
  • Father (to watch) TV at ten o’clock yesterday.
  • I (to go) to bed at nine o’clock yesterday.
  • I (to finish) my homework at nine o’clock yesterday.
  • I (to play) the piano at five o’clock yesterday.
  • He (to begin) to do his homework at four o’clock yesterday.
  • She (to wash) the floor at four o’clock yesterday.
  • I (to meet) Nick at three o’clock yesterday.
  • When I (to come) home, Kate (to play) the piano.
  • They (to play) in the yard in the evening yesterday.
  • They (to play) in the yard the whole evening yesterday.
  • I (to clean) my teeth at eight o’clock in the morning yesterday.
  • We (to go) to the wood in summer.
  • When the teacher (to open) the door of the classroom, the students (to sit) at their desks.
  • He (to get) up at seven o’clock yesterday.
  • Father (to come) home at six o’clock yesterday.
  • I (to read) a book at six o’clock yesterday.
  • She (to fall) asleep at eleven o’clock yesterday.
  • Mother (to drink) tea at eleven o’clock yesterday.
  • The cat (to take) a piece of fish and then (to run) away.
  • He (to read) a newspaper when I (to come) in.
  • Yesterday I (to get) up at seven o’clock.
  • The train (to arrive) at fifteen minutes to ten.
  • He (to put) on his coat and cap, (to open) the door and (to go) out.
  • At this time yesterday I (to sit)in the theatre.
  • I (to go) to the university when I (to see) him.
  • At this time yesterday we (to have) dinner.
  • He (to write) a letter when I (to come) in.
  • He (to make) a report when I (to leave) the meeting.
  • Yesterday he (to write) a letter to his friend.
  • When I (to look) at them, they (to smile) at me.
  • What you (to do) at six o’clock yesterday?
  • I (to go) to bed at half past eleven.
  • Yesterday the lesson (to begin) at nine o’clock.
  • When somebody (to knock) at the door, she (to argue) with her husband.
  • When Pete (to jog) in the park in the morning, he (to lose) his phone.
  • When the police (to take) the thief to the car, I (to go) to the cinema.
  • He (to shave) when he (to hear) her scream.
  • They (to go) to the wood last Sunday?
  • When they (to sail) down the river they (to see) a little island.
  • We (to work) the whole morning yesterday.
  • Mother (to cook) dinner at three o’clock yesterday.
  • She (to finish) cooking at four o’clock yesterday.
  • At half past four yesterday we (to have) dinner.
  • They (to translate) a difficult text yesterday.
  • I (to open) the window at six o’clock yesterday.
  • You (to go) to the cinema yesterday?
  • I (not to see) Mike last week.
  • When I (to open) the door, my friends (to sit) around the table.
  • When you (to begin) doing your homework yesterday?
  • We (to discuss) the latest news from three till four.

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The first one is more natural if you are referring to an action that was in progress at 8 o'clock. But it is not possible to omit the subject in English, pronoun " I " in this case.

If you are referring to an action that was concluded before 8 o'clock, you should use Past Perfect and a different preposition, " by 8 o'clock" in this case.

E.g.: I had finished my homework by 8 o'clock last night.

Both sentences are syntactically incorrect, i.e. the word order is not respected. 

You have two options: 1) to use a comma for emphasis: At 8 o'clock last night , I was doing my homework; 2) to put the whole adverbial phrase after the object: I was doing my homework at 8 o'clock last night .

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Complete the story. Use Simple Present and Present Progressive.

  • It (be) early in the morning.
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  • Then she (have) breakfast.
  • After breakfast, Sally usually (cycle) to school.
  • After school, she (go) back home.
  • Sally usually (eat) her lunch at home.
  • In the afternoons, she first (do) her homework and then she (meet) her friends in the park.
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  • Her friends (listen) and some of them (sing) along.
  • When Sally (come) home in the evening, she (have) dinner and then she (watch) TV.
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Past continuous tense exercise

The past continuous tense is used to talk about actions or events that were in progress around a particular past time. Test your knowledge of past continuous tense with this grammar exercise.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate past continuous form of the verb given in the brackets.

1. I …………………….. TV at eight o’clock yesterday evening.

2. i …………………… all day yesterday., 3. they ………………………… the whole time they were together., 4. as i …………………….. down the road, i saw philip., 5. the phone rang while i …………………………. dinner., 6. it happened while i ……………………….. in southampton last year., 7. when i entered her room, she ………………………. the piano., 8. when i got up this morning, the sun …………………………., 9. at the time when it happened, i ……………………… to the opera a lot..

1. I was watching TV at eight o’clock yesterday evening.

2. I was painting all day yesterday.

3. They were quarreling the whole time they were together.

4. As I was walking down the road, I saw Philip.

5. The phone rang while I was having dinner.

6. It happened while I was living in Southampton last year.

7. When I entered her room, she was playing the piano.

8. When I got up this morning, the sun was shining .

9. At the time when it happened, I was going to the opera a lot.

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  • 11. Multiple Choice Edit 1.5 minutes 1 pt _____ you still working at 7pm last night? Were Are Was
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  • 17. Multiple Choice Edit 1.5 minutes 1 pt Yesterday, at six my mother ___________ dinner. was making was make was made did make
  • 18. Multiple Choice Edit 1.5 minutes 1 pt My baby brother ______________ loudly so I couldn't do my homework. was cried cried was crying has cried
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Fact check: did trump end catch and release.

“We ended ‘catch and release,’” Trump said.

Trump did not end “catch and release,” a term used to describe the practice of releasing migrants into the country with court dates while they await court hearings. The U.S. doesn’t have enough facilities to detain every migrant who crosses the border until they can see judges, no matter who is president, so Trump — like Barack Obama before him and Biden after him — released many migrants back into the U.S.

Fact check: Did the Border Patrol union endorse Biden?

“By the way, the Border Patrol endorsed me, endorsed my position,” Biden said.

The National Border Patrol Council, the labor union for U.S. Border Patrol agents and staff members, has endorsed Trump. 

“The National Border Patrol Council has proudly endorsed Donald J. Trump for President of the United States,” the group’s vice president, Hector Garza, said in a statement shared exclusively with NBC News. 

The union posted on X , “to be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.”

Biden may have been referring to a Senate immigration bill that he backed, which earned the union’s endorsement .

Fact check: Did Trump have ‘the safest border in the history of our country’?

“We had the safest border in the history of our country,” Trump said.

It’s a clear exaggeration. In 2019, the last year before the Covid-19 pandemic brought down border crossings, there were roughly 860,000 illegal border crossings, far more than in any year during the Obama administration.

Fact check: Trump says Biden is allowing ‘millions’ of criminals to enter U.S.

“I’d love to ask him … why he’s allowed millions of people to come in from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country,” Trump said.

There is no evidence of this.

Venezuela doesn’t share law enforcement information with U.S. authorities, making it very hard to verify criminal histories of immigrants coming to the U.S. But there’s no evidence that Venezuela is purposefully sending “millions” of people from mental institutions and prisons to the U.S.

Fact check: Did Virginia’s former governor support infanticide?

“They will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month and even after birth. After birth. If you look at the former governor of Virginia, he was willing to do so, and we’ll determine what we do with the baby. Meaning we’ll kill the baby. ... So that means he can take the life of the baby in the ninth month and even after birth. Because some states, Democrat-run, take it after birth. Again, the governor, the former Virginia governor, put the baby down so that we decide what to do with it. He’s willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill the baby. Nobody wants that to happen, Democrat or Republican; nobody wants it to happen,” Trump said.

While some Democrats support broad access to abortion regardless of gestation age, infanticide is illegal, and no Democrats advocate for it. Just 1% of abortions are performed after 21 weeks’ gestation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

Trump first made the claim in 2019, after Virginia’s governor at the time, Ralph Northam, made controversial remarks in discussing an abortion bill. NBC News debunked the claim then, reporting that Northam’s remarks were about resuscitating infants with severe deformities or nonviable pregnancies. 

Asked on a radio program what happens when a woman who is going into labor desires a third-trimester abortion, Northam noted that such procedures occur only in cases of severe deformities or nonviable pregnancies. He said that in those scenarios, “the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

Terrorism, foreign policy and the military

Fact check: trump said there was ‘no terror’ during his tenure.

“That’s why you had no terror, at all, during my administration. This place, the whole world, is blowing up under him,” Trump said.

There were two ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks while Trump was president. The first occurred in October 2017, when Sayfullo Saipov killed eight people and injured a dozen more in a vehicle ramming attack on the West Side Highway bike path in New York City. The second occurred in December 2017, when Akayed Ullah injured four people when he set off a bomb strapped to himself.

Fact check: Biden suggests no troops died under his watch

“The truth is I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any this decade and any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did,” Biden said.

The Defense Department confirmed that 13 U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing attack at Abbey Gate at the Kabul airport by a member of ISIS-K as the U.S. was leaving Afghanistan. 

Environment

Fact check: did trump have the ‘best environmental numbers ever’.

“During my four years, I had the best environmental numbers ever, and my top environmental people gave me that statistic just before I walked on the stage, actually,” Trump said.

The figure Trump is referring to is the fact that carbon emissions fell during his administration. He posted the talking points his former Environmental Protection Agency chief emailed him on social media before the debate.

And it’s true that carbon emissions are falling — they have been dropping for years. Emissions particularly plunged in 2020, dropping to levels around those in 1983 and 1984. That drop was in large part thanks to Covid lockdowns, and emissions rose again when air travel and in-person working resumed. 

Still, climate activists and experts are quick to note that those drops are nowhere near enough to head off predicted catastrophic effects of global warming. Other major countries cut their emissions at a much faster rate during the Trump administration.

Fact check: The Jan. 6 crowd was not ‘ushered in’ by the police

“If you would see my statements that I made on Twitter at the time and also my statement that I made in the Rose Garden, you would say it’s one of the strongest statements you’ve ever seen. In addition to the speech I made in front of, I believe, the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to, and I will tell you, nobody ever talks about that. They talk about a relatively small number of people that went to the Capitol and, in many cases, were ushered in by the police. And as Nancy Pelosi said, it was her responsibility, not mine. She said that loud and clear,” Trump said.

During a lengthy answer to a question about whether he would accept the result of the 2024 election and say all political violence is unacceptable, Trump made several false statements, including the claim that police “ushered” rioters into the U.S. Capitol and that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said it was her responsibility to keep the chamber safe. 

Video and news reports of the Jan. 6 riots clearly captured the U.S. Capitol under attack by pro-Trump crowds who overran the law enforcement presence around and inside the complex. 

On Pelosi, Trump was most likely referring to video shot by Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra for an HBO documentary that showed her during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, tensely wondering how the Capitol was allowed to be stormed.

“We have responsibility, Terri,” Pelosi tells her chief of staff, Terri McCullough, as they leave the Capitol in a vehicle. “We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous.”

“You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing, when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff, ‘Should we call the Capitol Police?’ I mean the National Guard. Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” Pelosi says in the video. 

“They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more,” she says. 

Many allies of Trump have tried for the more than three years since the riots to paint Pelosi as somehow being responsible for the violence. Some Trump-backing Republicans have, for example, falsely claimed that she blocked the National Guard from going to the Capitol during the riots.

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Fact check: trump skipped world war i cemetery visit because the soldiers who died were ‘losers’.

Biden said that Trump “refused to go to” a World War I cemetery and that “he was standing with his four-star general” who said Trump said, “I don’t want to go in there, because they’re a bunch of losers and suckers.”

In 2018, during a trip to France, Trump canceled a visit to an American cemetery near Paris, blaming weather for the decision. 

But in September 2020, The Atlantic reported that Trump had axed the visit because he felt that those who’d lost their lives and been buried there were “losers.” The magazine cited “four people with firsthand knowledge of those discussions.”

According to The Atlantic, Trump said: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In another conversation, The Atlantic reported, Trump said the 1,800 American Marines who died were “suckers.” 

Several media outlets confirmed the remarks, and Trump’s former White House chief of staff John Kelly also said those specific comments were true.

Fact check: Trump says Biden didn’t run for president due to 2017 Charlottesville rally

“He made up the Charlottesville story, and you’ll see it’s debunked all over the place. Every anchor has — every reasonable anchor has debunked it, and just the other day it came out where it was fully debunked. It’s a nonsense story. He knows that, and he didn’t run because of Charlottesville. He used that as an excuse to run,” Trump said about Biden.

The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 featured torch-bearing white supremacists marching to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue and chanting racist slogans like “You will not replace us.” It turned deadly when a car plowed into a crowd .

In recent months, Trump has downplayed the violence, saying it was “nothing” compared to recent pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.

Meanwhile, Biden has always pointed to Trump’s 2017 comments as the primary reason he decided to seek the presidency in 2020, including in his campaign announcement video back in April 2019 .

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