PAST AND PAST CONTINOUS TENSE

1. Read these sentences:
2. He came in at a point in time
3. I was eating then

• He came in when I was eating

1. When I was eating, he came in.

Now, write down the sentences below like sentence (iii) above.

• I saw him when he was going out
• We got there when they were fighting
• Dada left home, when his father was dying
• We felt bad when we were coming
• My eacher told me when he was leaving.

 

2. Study the table below and write six sentences from it

 

My father Your sister Your friend Tayo

Was

Dancing Talking Sleeping Eating writing

When

I woke up They bought the car My mother came back

3. Complete the gaps in the sentence by using the appropriate form of verb in each of the brackets:
4. I broke the cu when I was ______ (run).
5. The man came when we were ________ (read)

• When tthey were praying, miracles ________ (happen)

1. When he was running away, we _____ (laugh)
2. I read the book when they were ______ (sleeping)

 

See also

SENTENCE FORMATION

QUESTION TAGS

QUESTION TAGS

Astronomy

PUNCTUATION