Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “As I Was Saying” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Simple & Continuous Tenses quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
How confident are you at knowing when to use (and how to form) Simple, or Continuous, forms of English verbs?
'As I was saying... ' (at some earlier point in time, e.g. before being interrupted), we should make sure you are happy with this in your everyday use of the language. Here are some questions on simple and continuous tenses to help you check.
'Wonder' is another verb that rarely, if ever, forms a Continuous version. (We do sometimes say 'I was just wondering ... ' when an unresolved idea has come up again in the back of our mind; but 'I wonder' is the usual simple present form.)
We use 'you are' (Simple Present) to refer to the future time when the other person will be in the town. This may not be absolutely logical, but it's 'quick and easy and simple', not hard to make or understand, and quite a lot of other languages do the same thing. (Does yours, we wonder?)