Past Simple vs Past Continuous - Quiz

Bell ....................... the telephone

• invented

• created

• developed

• discovered

How many symphonies .......... Mozart ..............?

• did ....... compose?

• was ......... compose?

• does ........ compose?

• has ........ composed?

Henson was the ............... of The Muppets.

• creator

• create

• creation

• creative

I love writing ............! It somehow relaxes me.

• poetic

• poem

• poetry

• poet

My sister ........................... in 2011! She's almost ten years old.

• has born

• born

• is born

• was born

Tom .............................. while his mother ................................ dinner.

• was studying ........ cooked

• studied .......... was cooking

• studied ........... cooked

• was studying ....... was cooking

I .............. Maria while I ...................... down the stairs. Then I lost her again.

• see ........... went

• saw ........... went

• saw .......... was going

• was seeing .......... was going

My friend's grandmother ............. two years ago, at the age 0f 90.

• did die

• die

• dying

• died

Yesterday I ............... up early in the morning and .................. the newspaper.

• woke ............. was reading

• was waking ...........read

• waking ........... read

• woke .......... read

After the robbery all her clothes ......................... on the floor and her money .....................

• were lying ................. was missing

• were lying ............... missed

• lay .................... missing

• lie .................... was missing