Past Simple vs Past Continuous Exercises For Serbian Grammar

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In the Serbian grammar, Past Simple and Past Continuous are important tenses that denote actions in the past. Past Simple refers to actions that happened at an exact time in the past. It’s formed with the auxiliary verb ‘biti (to be)’ in the past simple and past participle. On the other hand, Past Continuous is used to denote ongoing actions in the past and is usually translated as “I was doing something”. It’s constructed with the auxiliary verb ‘biti (to be)’ in the present tense and the infinitive of the verb.

Exercise 1: Fill in the blanks with the correct past simple form

1. Ja sam *bio* (was) u ลกkoli juฤe.
2. On je *video* (saw) psa u parku.
3. Mi smo *jeli* (ate) picu za veฤeru.
4. Ti si *ฤitao* (read) knjigu pre spavanja.
5. Ona je *plakala* (cried) na filmu.
6. Vi ste *plesali* (danced) cele noฤ‡i.
7. *Kupio* (bought) sam novi auto.
8. Oni su *igrali* (played) fudbal.
9. *Govorila* (spoke) si o tome na sastanku.
10. Mi smo *pisali* (wrote) testove.
11. Ja sam *trฤao* (ran) maraton.
12. Ti si *pevao* (sang) na koncertu.
13. Oni su *gledali* (watched) film.
14. *Proฤitala* (read) je novine.
15. Vi ste *radili* (worked) kasno.

Exercise 2: Fill in the blanks with the correct past continuous form

1. Ja sam *bio* (was) ฤitao knjigu.
2. Ona je *bila* (was) prala kosu.
3. Mi smo *bili* (were) pevali pesme.
4. Ti si *bio* (was) trฤao maraton.
5. Ona je *bila* (was) pisala priฤu.
6. Vi ste *bili* (were) radili domaฤ‡i.
7. On je *bio* (was) gledao televiziju.
8. Oni su *bili* (were) igrali video igre.
9. *Bila* (was) sam jela doruฤak.
10. Ti si *bio* (was) vozio bicikl.
11. Oni su *bili* (were) kupovali namirnice.
12. *Bila* (was) je slikala pejzaลพ.
13. Mi smo *bili* (were) veลพbali matematiku.
14. Vi ste *bili* (were) plivali u bazenu.
15. On je *bio* (was) pravio tortu.

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