- •Identify the tenses in bold, then match them with the correct description.
- •Read the following extracts and put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
- •Read the text and put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
- •Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
- •Underline the correct tense, present simple or present continuous, in the following sentences.
- •Complete these sentences using the present simple or the present continuous. Use the verbs given in brackets. Add never or always if this is also given.
- •Complete this letter with the correct form of the present simple or the present continuous. Use each verb in the list once. The first (0) is given as an example.
- •Choose the correct form of the verbs.
- •Put the verbs in the correct tense, present simple or present continuous.
- •Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
- •Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
- •State Verbs
- •13. Some state verbs can be used in continuous forms but the meaning changes. Read the sentences below and match the verbs in bold with their meaning.
- •14. Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
- •Present forms
- •Time expressions
- •15. Fill in for or since.
- •Have gone (to) / have been (to)
- •16. Fill in the gaps with have /has been (to) or have / has gone (to).
- •17. Fill in the gaps with recently, how long, yet, for, always, ever, already, since, so far or just. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.
- •18. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect or the present perfect continuous, using short forms where appropriate.
- •19. Choose the correct answer.
- •20. Underline the correct tense.
- •21. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect or the present perfect continuous.
- •22. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect or the present perfect continuous.
- •23. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect or the present perfect continuous.
- •24. Complete the following conversation with verbs from the list. Use the present perfect or the present perfect continuous. You will need to use some of the verbs more than once.
- •25. Use the words given to complete the sentences. Put the verbs in the present perfect or the present perfect continuous.
- •26. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •27. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •28. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct present forms.
- •29. Identify the tenses, then match them with the correct description.
- •30. Choose the correct answer.
- •31. Correct the mistakes.
- •32. Put the verbs in brackets into the appropriate present forms.
- •33. Make all the necessary changes and additions to make a complete letter.
- •Present forms
- •Friday afternoon at MacGruder’s department store
- •Time expressions
- •. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •35. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •36. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •37. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the present perfect.
- •38. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •39. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •40. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •41. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •42. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •Used to / Be used to / Get used to / Would
- •43. Choose the correct answer.
- •45. Choose the correct form of the verbs.
- •46. Write a sentence for each of the following using used to / didn’t use to.
- •47. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
- •Past forms
- •48. Identify the tenses, then match them to the correct descriptions.
- •49. Put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect or the past perfect continuous.
- •50. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •51. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •52. Complete the sentences below using the information in the box.
- •53. Complete the sentences using the past continuous, the past perfect or the past perfect continuous. Use the verb given in brackets. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.
- •54. Choose the correct form of the verbs. Conference report
- •55. Most of the sentences have one verb in the wrong tense. Correct them or write right.
- •56. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past perfect.
- •57. Rewrite the following passage, making all the necessary tense changes.
- •58. Underline the correct tense.
- •59. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate past form.
- •60. Fill the gaps in this text with one suitable word. Disaster!
- •61. Supply suitable verbs for the following conversation.
- •62. Identify the tenses , then match them with the correct description.
- •63. Choose the correct answer.
- •64. Correct the mistakes.
- •65. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct past forms.
- •66. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct past forms.
- •Past forms
- •How I changed my life.
- •The present continuous tense as a future form
- •67. Put the verbs in brackets into the present continuous tense.
- •The be going to form
- •68. Put the verbs in brackets into the be going to form.
- •The future simple
- •69. Put the verbs in brackets into the future simple.
- •The present continuous and the future simple
- •70. Put the verbs in brackets into the present continuous or the future simple using the present continuous where possible.
- •71. Fill in the gaps with shall, will or the correct form of be going to.
- •72. Replace the words in bold with will / won’t or shall I / we, as in the example.
- •The future continuous tense
- •77. Put the verbs in brackets into the future continuous tense.
- •The future perfect tense
- •79. Put the verbs in brackets into the future perfect tense.
- •The future perfect and the future perfect continuous tenses
- •80. Put the verbs in brackets into the future perfect or the future perfect continuous.
- •81. Put the verbs in brackets into the future continuous or the future perfect.
- •82. Put the verbs in brackets into the future perfect continuous or the future perfect.
- •83. Choose the correct answer.
- •C have lived
- •C will be seeing
- •C will be dancing
- •84. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •85. Underline the correct tense.
- •86. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct future tense.
- •87. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct future tense.
- •88. Underline the correct tense.
- •89. Put the verbs into the correct future tense.
- •90. Correct the mistakes.
- •91. Identify the tenses, then match them to the correct description.
- •92. Fill in the correct present or future forms.
- •Future forms
- •93. Choose the correct item.
- •B will have arrived d arrives
- •B will be finishing d will have finished
- •B are going to have worked d will work
- •94. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •95. Underline the correct item.
- •1. Choose the correct answer.
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets into a correct tense.
- •3. Correct mistakes.
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •“Really? What sort of car?”
- •“Well, I ….. Him this afternoon. Why don’t you come along?”
- •Put the verbs in brackets into a correct tense.
- •Correct the mistakes.
- •Put the verbs in brackets into a correct tense.
- •Correct the mistakes.
- •Irregular verbs
94. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
George 1) ….. (live) in Kyiv for almost six months when his cousin Nick arrived from George’s native village in the Caucasus. George 2) ….. (board) with a Ukrainian family since his arrival. He 3) ….. (learn) a great deal about Ukrainian habits and customs and 4) ….. (get) used to eating Ukrainian food. He 5) ….. (have / not) many letters from home, however, and 6) ….. (be) anxious for news of his family. Nick 7) ….. (tell) him that his father 8) ….. (be) quite ill for several weeks during the summer but that he 9) ….. (recover) completely before Nick 10) ….. (leave) the village.
Professor Baker and Mrs. Baker knew each other when they 1) ….. (be) children but they 2) ….. (see / not) each other for six years when they 3) ….. (meet) on a ship going to England. They 4) ….. (go) to the same elementary school and the same high school but they 5) ….. (choose) different colleges and they 6) ….. (see / not) each other since their high school graduation. After renewing their acquaintance, they 7) ….. (start) to go together. After they 8) ….. (go) together for three months, they 9) ….. (get) married. That 10) ….. (be) more than forty years ago. They 11) ….. (be) married for over forty years.
Most of us in this course 1) ….. (study / already) English for several years before we 2) ….. (begin) to study at the institute. Many of us 3) ….. (learn) to speak fluently, but we used to make a lot of mistakes. Since the beginning of the term we 4) ….. (try) to eliminate our mistakes and replace them with normal English patterns. During that time we 5) ….. (have) ample opportunity to practise sentence patterns and to ask about points of grammar which we didn’t understand. Many of mistakes which we used to make we won’t make any more, because we 6) ….. (establish) new habits. We 7) ….. (master / not) all of the patterns yet, though. In future we 8) ….. (be going) to keep right on practicing until we 9) ….. (speak and write) as well in English as we do in our native languages.
Right now we 1) ….. (think) about our exams. A few weeks from now we 2) ….. (take) them and we hope to do well. By the end of the term we 3) ….. (work) hard for nineteen weeks and we will want to forget about studying a while and just relax and enjoy ourselves. By the end of June everyone 4) ….. (leave) the hostel and spend the holiday somewhere else. Those of us who 5) ….. (work) hard at our English will leave with the satisfaction that we 6) ….. (learn) a lot, and with the knowledge that we still have a lot to learn.
A dog once 1) ….. (run) home carrying in his mouth a piece of meat which someone 2) ….. (give) him. After he 3) ….. (run) a few minutes, he 4) ….. (grow) tired and 5) ….. (lie) down on the grass to rest with his head on the bit of meat. Scarcely he 6) ….. (lie) there five minutes, when a second dog, which 7) ….. (follow) him all the time unseen, came up and made a rush for the meat. The first dog 8) ….. (drive) him off and then 9) ….. (continue) on his way. Soon he 10) ….. (come) to a stream. He 11) ….. (cross) it by a narrow bridge when he suddenly 12) ….. (see) his own shadow in the water below. Thinking it was another dog with another bit of meat, he 13) ….. (open) his mouth and 14) ….. (snap) at the supposed treasure. The result was that he 15) ….. (drop) the piece he 16) ….. (carry) and so 17) ….. (lose) all.
When I 1) ….. (be) twenty-one, I 2) ….. (go) to England to study physics. At that time I 3) ….. (know) English quite well because I 4) ….. (study) it for nearly ten years. I 5) ….. (already / finish) my studies at our University, so I 6) ….. (know) quite a lot about physics.
I 7) ….. (arrive) in England in October. I 8) ….. (never / be) abroad, so everything in England 9) ….. (interest) me very much. When I 10) ….. (find) my college, and when I 11) ….. (put) my luggage in my room, I went out to see Cambridge. I 12) ….. (never / see) such a beautiful city before! I 13) ….. (be / lost). After I 14) ….. (walk) around for an hour, I 15) ….. (decide) to ask a policeman the way. I 16) ….. (find) one and 17) ….. (tell) him that I 18) ….. (lose) my way. He was very helpful. He 19) ….. (tell) me the way to my college. During the past hour I 20) ….. (walk) round in a circle, and I was quite near it again. I 21) ….. (never / lose) my way before, and said to myself, “I will never lose it again: I will get a map of Cambridge.”
When we 1) ….. (come) to the beach, we 2) ….. (find) that the tide 3) ….. (sweep) away our boat although we 4) ….. (fasten) it to a strong pole. We 5) ….. (be obliged) to go back to the village and wait for the evening train. When the train already 6) ….. (approach) we 7) ….. (notice) that we 8) ….. (leave) some of our things in the hut of the old fisherman. We 9) ….. (rush) back to the sea-shore to fetch our things, but when we 10) ….. (return) to the railway station, the train already 11) ….. (go). The thing that 12) ….. (remain) for us 13) ….. (be) to spend the night in the village. We 14) ….. (sleep) in an old barn full of new-mown hay. In the morning the voice of my companion 15) ….. (awake) me. “Get up, old chap. You 16) ….. (sleep) long enough.” When we 17) ….. (get) out of the barn, it 18) ….. (be) broad daylight, the sun 19) ….. (shine) brightly and the grass 20) ….. (glisten) in the morning dew.
John 1) ….. (leave) the house in a rush this morning. As he 2) ….. (drive) to work he suddenly 3) ….. (remember) that he 4) ….. (be / asked) to speak at a conference. He 5) ….. (look) at his watch and 6) ….. (see) that it was nearly time for the conference to begin.
Last March Sam 1) ….. (decide) that he 2) ….. (have) enough of working in a bank and that he 3) ….. (ride) around the world on a bicycle. He 4) ….. (leave) England two weeks later with his bike, a rucksack and a tent. He 5) ….. (be) away for six months now, and no one 6) ….. (know) whether he 7) ….. (return) or not.
Jan and Paul 1) ….. (argue) in the next room at the moment. It 2) ….. (seem) that Paul 3) ….. (come) in late night after he 4) ….. (promise) Jan that he 5) ….. (be) home in time for dinner. By the time he 6) ….. (get) home, Jan 7) ….. (give) his dinner to the dog and 8) ….. (wait) by the window for two hours!
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Ago: back in time from now (used with Past Simple) Ann left an hour ago. Before: back in time from then. Tony told me that Ann had left an hour before. Before is also used with present or past forms to show that an action preceded another. He’ll come before you leave. He had cooked dinner before she came home. Already is used with Perfect tenses in mid or end position in statements or questions. He had already fixed the tap when the plumber arrived. Have you got dressed already? Yet is used with Perfect tenses in negative sentences after a contracted auxiliary verb or at the end of the sentence. He hasn’t yet called. He hasn’t called yet. It can also be used at the end of questions. Have they arrived yet? Still is used in statements and questions after auxiliary verb or before the main verb. She can still dance well. Still comes before the auxiliary verb in negations. She still hasn’t replied to my letter. |