While Swami’s father …… (read) the newspaper, Swami …… (listen) to it.

Question

Read the following paragraph and fill in the blanks with the simple past or the past continuous forms. 

While Swami’s father …… (read) the newspaper, Swami …… (listen) to it. His father …… (ask) him to sleep alone. But he …… (be) afraid of ghosts. He ……… (want) to sleep in his grandmother’s room. While he ……… (sleep), he ……(have) a terrible dream. A tiger ……… (chase) him and he ………(try) to escape.

Answer 1

1) was reading 

2) was listening 

3) asked 

4) was 

5) wanted

6) was sleeping 

7) had 

8) was chasing 

9) was trying