When Does Hope Learn the Truth About Baby Beth Already?
Present perfect-present perfect continuous. Exercises
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Exercise i The present perfect simple and continuous. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense: present perfect simple or present perfect continuous.
1 Peter: You (telephone) for ages. You not nearly (terminate)?
Jack: I (non go) through yet. I (endeavor) to get our Paris role only the line (be) engaged all forenoon.
ii Ann (fail) her driving test 3 times because she's then bad at reversing. But she (practise) reversing for the last week and I think she (get) a bit meliorate at it.
3 Tom: I often (wonder) why Bill left the country and so all of a sudden.
Peter: Actually, I merely (observe) out.
iv He (play) the bagpipes since vi o'clock this morning. He only only (stop).
5 Why you (not bring) me the letters for signature? Yous (not type) them yet?
6 Tom (looking upwards absent-minded-mindedly as Mary comes in): You (sunbathe)?
Mary (crossly): Don't exist ridiculous! It (rain) all day!
vii A pair of robins (build) a nest in the porch since final week. I (watch) them from my window since they began.
eight The law (not find) the murderer yet, only the dead man's brother (be) in the station all twenty-four hours. The police say that he (help) them with their enquiries.
9 They (pull) down most of the houses in this street, but they (not touch on) the old store at the corner yet.
x Tom is convinced that there is gilt in these hills but we (search) for 6 months and (non see) any sign of information technology.
11 I (wait) for the prices of the houses to come down earlier ownership a house, but I think I (wait) too long and the prices are showtime to go upwardly over again.
12 Peter (exist) a junior clerk for three years. Lately he (look) for a ameliorate mail only so far he (not find) anything.
13 I (do) housework all morning and I (not finish) yet.
- I (do) mine already. I always offset at 6 a.m.
14 I just (choice) ten pounds of strawberries! I (abound) strawberries for years but I never (have) such a skilful ingather before.
15 What you (do) with the corkscrew? The point is broken off.
- I'm afraid I (employ) information technology to make holes in this can.
16 She but (sell) two of her own paintings.
- She'due south lucky. I (paint) for five years and I (not sell) a single picture all the same.
17 They are throwing crockery at each other in the side by side apartment.
- This (happen) before?
- Well, they (have) a good many rows but this is the beginning time they (throw) crockery.
18 What yous (exercise) with my typewriter? I can't find it anywhere.
- Tom just (go) off with it. He says he'll bring it back when he (end).
19 He (work) for Crow Brothers for xl years and never in one case (be) late. The firm just (present) him with a gold watch as .a sign of their appreciation.
20 We (mend) sheets all morning just we only (exercise) three, and now the sewing car (suspension) down so nosotros'll be even slower with the next one.
21 George (collect) matchboxes ever since he left schoolhouse. Now he (collect) so many that he doesn't know where to put them.
22 I (look) through my onetime photo album. Information technology's full of photographs of people whose names I completely (forget). I wonder what (happen) to them all.
23 It was lovely at eleven o'clock, but since then the sky (get) steadily darker and the wind (rise). I'm agape the fine spell (come) to an end.
24 Since he became Mayor, my brother reckons that he (swallow) 30 official lunches and 22 official dinners, and he (lose) count of the number of receptions and parties that he (attend).
- He (put) on a lot of weight?
25 Secretary: Customers (band) up all morning lament about getting incorrect bills.
Manager: I know, something (go) wrong with our reckoner. The mechanic (work) on it. I promise he (find) out what'due south wrong.
26 Someone (employ) my umbrella! It's all moisture! And it was wet yesterday and the twenty-four hour period before!
- Well, it wasn't me. I (non exist) out of the business firm for a week!
27 I (stand up) in this queue for ages. Information technology (non move) at all in the concluding five minutes. I recollect the man in the ticket function simply (shut) his window and (become) off for lunch.
28 The Town Council (consider) my application for permission to build a garage for three months. They simply (requite) my neighbour permission to build one, so I promise they (decide) to let me have one too.'
29 Y'all look wearied!
- Yes, I (play) tennis and I (not play) for years, so I'm non used to information technology.
30 They began widening this road iii weeks ago; but the workmen (be) on strike for the final fortnight so they (not become) very far with it.
31 That homo (stand) at the coach stop for the terminal one-half hour. Shall I tell him that the last passenger vehicle already (become)?
32 I wonder if annihilation (happen) to Tom. I (wait) an hour at present. He ofttimes (keep) me waiting only he never (be) quite and so belatedly as this.
33 Mrs Brown (live) adjacent door for quite a long time now but she never (say) more 'Skillful morning' to me.
34 I just (remember) that I (not pay) the hire even so. I am surprised that the landlord (not band) me upward to remind me.
- Information technology is the showtime time you (be) late with the rent in 25 years. He probably thinks that you (pay) and he (lose) the cheque.
35 Shop assistant; Could you lot give me some proof of your identity, madam?
Customer: Simply I (shop) here for fifteen years!
Shop assistant: I know, madam, merely apparently the visitor (lose) a lot of money lately through dud cheques and they (make) new regulations which we (be told) to apply to all customers no matter how long we (know) them.
36 What you lot (practise)? I (wait) for you lot for ages.
- I (build) a barbecue in the garden.
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Exercise 2 The simple past and the by perfect, uncomplicated and continuous. Put the verbs in brackets into the right tense.
1 He (give) me back the book, (thank) me for lending information technology to him and he (say) that he (bask) it very much; but I (know) that he (not read) it because most of the pages (be) yet uncut.
two When he (run across) his married woman off at the station he (return) home equally he (not have) to be at the drome till 9.xxx.
iii He (not have) to pack, for his married woman already (do) that for him and ms case (exist) ready in the hall.
4 He (non have) to check the doors and windows either, for his wife always (practice) that before she (leave) the house.
5 All he (have) to do (be) to decide whether or not to take his overcoat with him. In the end he (decide) not to.
6 At 8.30 he (selection) upwardly his case, (go) out of firm and (slam) the door backside him.
seven Then he (feel) in his jpodrets for the fundamental, for his married woman (remind) him to double-lock the irast door.
8 When he (search) all his pockets and (find) no key he Recall) where it (be).
9 He (get out) it in his overcoat pocket.
x And then he (think) something else; his passport and tickets (be) k his overcoat pocket too.
eleven I (arrive) in England in the heart of July. I (exist told) that England (be) shrouded in fog all twelvemonth round, then I (exist) quite surprised to discover that it was merely raining.
12 I (ask) another passenger, an Englishman, nigh the fog and he (say) that there (not exist) any since the previous February.
13 If I (want) fog, he said, I (come) at quite the incorrect time.
14 However, he (tell) me that I could purchase tinned fog at a shop in Shaftesbury Avenue.
15 He (acknowledge) that he never (purchase) fog there himself but (clinch) me that they (sell) good quality fog and that it (not be) expensive. I suppose he was joking.
xvi When the old lady (return) to her flat she (see) at one time that burglars (pause) in during her absence, because the front door (be) open and everything in the flat (exist) upside down.
17 The burglars themselves (be) no longer there, but they probably only just (leave) because a cigarette was nonetheless called-for on an ornamental table.
xviii Probably they (hear) the lift coming upward and (run) down the fire escape.
nineteen They (assist) themselves to her whisky too simply at that place (exist) a little left, so she (pour) herself out a drink.
20 She (wonder) if they (find) her jewellery and rather (hope) that they had.
21 The jewellery (be given) her by her husband, who (die) some years before.
22 Since his death she (not have) the eye to vesture information technology, notwithstanding she (non like) to sell it.
23 Now it (seem) that fate (take) the matter out of her hands; and certainly the insurance money would come up in handy.
24 I (put) the £5 note into ane of my books; but next day it (take) me ages to find it because I (forget) which volume I (put) information technology into.
25 A woman (come) in with a baby, who she (say) just (swallow) a safety pin.
26 I (remember) my train (exit) at 14.33, and (be) very disappointed when I (arrive) at fourteen.xxx and (learn) that information technology merely (leave).
27 I (find) later that I (utilize) an out-of-date timetable.
28 He (park) his car under a No Parking sign and (blitz) into the shop. When he (come up) out of the shop 10 minutes later the car (exist) no longer there.
29 He (wonder) if someone (steal) it or if the police (drive) it abroad.
30 It (be) now 6 p.m.; and Jack (be) tired because he (work) hard all 24-hour interval.
31 He (be) also hungry because he (have) nothing to eat since breakfast.
32 His married woman usually (bring) him sandwiches at dejeuner time, but today for some reason she (not come).
33 He (go along) looking at her, wondering where he (run across) her before.
34 I (look) out before I (go) to bed and (see) a man standing on the opposite pavement watching the house.
35 When I (get upward) the following morning time he (be) still there, and I (wonder) whether he (stay) at that place all night or if he (go) away and (come) dorsum.
36 When I (open) the door I (see) a man on his knees.
37 He conspicuously (listen) to our conversation and I (wonder) how much he (hear).
38 When I (ask) him what he (do), he (say) that he (drop) a 50p piece exterior the door and (look) for it.
39 I (not see) any sign of the money, but I (notice) a small notebook and pencil which he probably (drop) when the door (open) all of a sudden.
40 And so he (have) notes of our conversation!
41 The notes (be) written in a foreign language, so I (plow) to the stranger and (inquire) him to interpret.
42 But he (pull) my hat over my eyes and (run) off downwards the corridor.
43 By the time I (recover) from the shock he (disappear) circular the corner.
44 Curiously enough, when I (move) my foot I (observe) that I (stand) on a 50p piece.
45 Peradventure he (tell) the truth afterwards all!'
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| Answers |
| Exercise 1 1 have been telephoning; Oasis't you almost finished; oasis't got; accept been trying, has been 2 has failed; has been practising, has got 3 accept often wondered; take just plant out 4 has been playing; has merely only stopped 5 oasis't you brought; Haven't you typed vi Accept you been sunbathing; has been raining/ has rained 7 accept been building; have been watching/have watched 8 oasis't found, has been; has been helping 9 accept pulled down, haven't touched 10 have searched/have been searching, haven't seen 11 have been waiting, have waited 12 has been; has been looking, hasn't found xiii accept been doing, haven't finished; take done 14 have merely picked; take grown/have been growing, accept never had 15 take you been doing; have been using 16 has just sold; accept been painting, haven't sold 17 has this happened; have had, accept thrown 18 have you washed; has simply gone; has finished nineteen has worked/has been working, has never once been; have/has just presented twenty accept been mending/accept mended, have only washed, has broken downward 21 has collected/has been collecting; has nerveless 22 have been looking, have completely forgotten; has happened 23 has been getting/has got, has been rising/has risen; has come 24 has eaten, has lost count, has attended; Has he put on 25 accept been ringing upwards; has gone; has been working; has institute out 26 has been using; oasis't been 27 have been standing; hasn't moved; has just close... and gone off 28 has/take been considering; have but given, accept decided 29 have been playing, haven't played 30 have been, haven't got 31 has been continuing; has already gone 32 has happened; have been waiting/accept waited; has often kept, has never been 33 has been living/has lived, has never said 34 take just , remembered, oasis't paid; hasn't rung; accept been; have paid; has lost 35 have been shopping/have shopped; has been losing/has lost, have made, have been told, take known 36 have you been doing; accept been looking; have been building Exercise 2 1 gave, thanked, said, had enjoyed, knew, hadn't read, were 2 had seen, returned, didn't have/hadn't 3 didn't have, had already washed, was 4 didn't take, did, left 5 had, was; decided 6 picked, went, slammed seven felt, had reminded viii had searched and found, remembered, was 9 had left 10 remembered, were eleven arrived; had been told, was, was 12 asked, said, hadn't been 13 wanted, had come 14 told 15 admitted, never bought/had never bought, assured, sold, wasn't 16 returned, saw, had cleaved in, was, was 17 were, had just just left 18 Probably they (had) heard/They (had) probably heard, had run/ran 19 had helped, was, poured 20 wondered, had establish, hoped 21 had been given, had died 22 hadn't had, hadn't liked 23 seemed, had taken 24 put, took, had forgotten/forgot, had put 25 came, said, had only swallowed 26 thought, left, was, arrived, learnt, had simply left 27 found, had been using/had used 28 parked, rushed; came, was 29 wondered, had stolen, had driven thirty was, was, had been working/had worked 31 was, had had 32 brought, hadn't come 33 kept, had seen 34 looked, went, saw 35 got upwards, was, wondered, had stayed, had gone abroad and come back 36 opened, saw 37 had conspicuously been listening, wondered, had heard 38 asked, had been doing/was doing, said, had dropped, had been looking for/was looking for 39 didn't see, establish, had probably dropped, opened forty had been taking 41 were, turned, asked 42 pulled, ran off 43 (had) recovered, had disappeared 44 moved, found, had been standing 45 had been telling/was telling |
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