A2ElementaryTopic: Tenses
Past continuous: what were you doing?
Was and were + -ing for an action in progress at a time in the past: forms, questions and spelling.
14 questionsby Grove EnglishAdded 13 Oct 2026
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Was or were?
Choose the correct answer.
At nine o'clock last night I ___ a film.
They ___ for the bus when I saw them.
___ it raining when you left the house?
Sorry, I ___. What did you say?
What ___ at midnight?
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