{"id":2314,"date":"2017-06-28T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2017-06-28T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T16:40:40","slug":"continuous-tenses-worksheet-for-class-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/continuous-tenses-worksheet-for-class-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Tenses Worksheet for Class 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use continuous tenses to talk about actions that are \/ were \/ will be going on at a particular point of time in the present, past or future.<\/p>\n<p>English has three continuous tense forms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Present continuous tense<\/li>\n<li>Past continuous tense<\/li>\n<li>Future continuous tense<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We make the present continuous tense form by putting<strong> is, am or are before the \u2013ing form of the verb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is running.<\/li>\n<li>I am writing.<\/li>\n<li>We are playing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Past continuous tense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We make the past continuous tense form by putting <strong>was \/ were before the \u2013ing form of the verb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was writing.<\/li>\n<li>They were singing.<\/li>\n<li>He was sleeping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Future continuous<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We use the future continuous tense forms by putting <strong>will \/ shall + be before the \u2013ing form of the verb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They will be playing.<\/li>\n<li>I will be working.<\/li>\n<li>You will be playing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Exercise<\/h2>\n<p>Make sentences in the present continuous tense, past continuous tense and future continuous tense using the following verbs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch, sing, play, run, pretend, grow, chase<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Solution<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am watching TV.<\/li>\n<li>She was watching a program on TV.<\/li>\n<li>They will be matching the match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The girl is singing a song.<\/li>\n<li>The boys are singing.<\/li>\n<li>I will be singing a song.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The child is playing.<\/li>\n<li>She was playing with her dog.<\/li>\n<li>I will be playing with my children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Run<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The girl is running after her puppy.<\/li>\n<li>The boy was running fast.<\/li>\n<li>I will be running.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pretend<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is pretending to be ill.<\/li>\n<li>She was pretending to be ill.<\/li>\n<li>She will be pretending to be ill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Grow<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plants are growing well.<\/li>\n<li>The rose was growing well.<\/li>\n<li>The plant will be growing well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chase<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cat is chasing the mouse.<\/li>\n<li>The dogs were chasing the cat.<\/li>\n<li>The dogs will be chasing the cat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use continuous tenses to talk about actions that are \/ were \/ will be going on at a particular point of time in the present, past or future. English has three continuous tense&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-8-worksheets","tag-tenses-worksheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}