Open the brackets and use the Present or Past Continuous tenses. 1. He (live) with his mother at that time.
2. I can't take the phone: I (wash) up the dishes.
3. While I (read), John (play) the guitar.
4. It (rain) at 6 o'clock yesterday.
5. Peter (not work) when Mary returned.
6. When John (come) back?
7. You (sit) comfortable?
8. While mum (vacuum) the sofa, Jane and Peter (wash) up.
9. As I (not listen) I didn't hear what he said.
11. When I came she (try) a new dress.

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Объяснение:

Form

Affirmative: was/were + present participle (verb + ing)

Negative: wasn’t/weren’t + present participle (verb + ing)

Meaning

Past continuous is used to say that an action was in progress at a particular time in the past. The action had already started at this time but had not finished.

I was having dinner at 6pm last night.

What were you doing this time yesterday?

Past continuous is used to say that an action was in progress at every moment during a period of time.

You were working all morning, weren’t you?

I was playing football all day yesterday.

Past continuous is used with past simple. Past continuous refers to a longer or background action that was in progress; past simple refers to a shorter action that interrupted the longer action, or happened in the middle of it.

He was walking to work when he met John.

She was eating when the phone rang.

While I was working in the garden, I heard a woman scream.

Past continuous is used to say that an action in the past was temporary.

You were working in the Sales Department last month, weren’t you?

They were living in Paris for a year.

Past continuous is used with words such as always to talk about things that happened repeatedly.

Grandpa was always telling us funny stories about his life and cracking jokes.