Past continuous negative forms

Exercise on past continuous negative

Complete the dialogues with negative forms of the past continuous tense.

A: When I met you, you were wearing a hat.
B: But I was not wearing a hat. It was a scarf.

A: Were you talking to Bob during dinner yesterday evening?

B: I to anybody. I was alone all day.

A: Were your mum and dad watching the football match yesterday night?

B: My mum TV. She preferred listening to classical music as usual.

A: Was I wearing the blue tie at the party or not? I have no idea.

B: You any tie as far as I can remember.

A: Guess what I was doing between 5 and 6 o'clock in the afternoon.

B: I know that you anything, your sister told me.

A: When I met them, Sam was buying some meat and Jill was buying drinks.

B: I don't understand why they things together. Did they split up?

A: I wasn't waiting for my grandparents when they arrived at the station.

B: Why for them? What happened?

A: Did you notice? Eve was looking at me when we got out of the car.

B: It's not true! She at you.

A: You weren't looking very happy at the beginning of the English lesson.

B: And why happy? I didn't want to write the revision test!

Past continuous Exercises with answers, PDF worksheets with keys and grammar rules with examples.

Suitable for elementary - intermediate learners of English as a foreign language.