Английская грамматика в упражнениях. Гунина Н.А - 7 стр.

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PRESENT PERFECT / PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
1. Here is the latest news about your friends and family. Complete the sentences using the present perfect simple.
I / buy / a new car I have bought a new car.
1. Mary / move to a new house.
2. Fred and Frank / start / a company.
3. My parents / go to Greece.
4. Sue / get married.
5. Granny/celebrate her 80th birthday.
2. Write a sentence using the present perfect continuous. Use the words in brackets.
John is sunburnt. (sit / in the sun) He has been sitting in the sun.
1. The ground is wet (rain).
2. Jack has no money left (shop).
3. Fred is covered in paint (paint / the kitchen).
4. Maisy is tired and irritable (drive / for 4 hours).
5. Harry is very hot and dirty (dig / the garden).
3. Complete the sentences using present perfect simple or continuous.
1. (build) The Browns ……………………………. a house for some time.
They …………………………….. all the main walls now.
2. (write) John …………………………….. his novel since last year.
He ………………………………… the first three chapters.
3. (paint) The painters ……………………… the town hall since February.
They ……………………………….. nearly half of it now.
4. (save) The Cooks …………………….. to go on holiday next summer.
They …………………………………….. €2000 up to now.
5. (watch) I ……………………………… cartoons on TV.
I ……………………………………… 4 cartoons already.
4. Put the verb in the most suitable form, present perfect simple or continuous.
1. You look tired. ……………………………. (you / study) hard?
2. Mr. Brown is new here, isn't he? How 1ong …………………(he / work) for the company?
3. I ………………………(lose) my wallet. Have you seen it anywhere?
4. I…………(read) the magazine you lent me, but I ……(not / finish) yet.
5. ………… (you/hear) the bad news? Simon ………… (break) his leg!
6. How many articles …………………………. (you / write)?
7. What ………… (you/do)? I ………………(wait) for you for an hour!
8. Bob and his friends …………………… (play) golf since this morning.
9. I …………………………. (know) Louise for ten years.
PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS
1. Make simple past sentences.
When / my letter / arrive? When did my letter arrive?
1. What / all those people / want?
2. All your brothers / send / birthday cards?
3. The baby / eat / some toothpaste this morning +
4. The teacher / answer / my question
2. Complete the sentences with past continuous verbs.
When I walked in (children fight +) the children were fighting.
1. At 9.00 on Sunday (we watch TV +).
2. When I saw him he was holding a paper, but (read -).
3. When you heard them, (they speak English?).
3. Past simple or past continuous?
1. At 6.15, when you phoned, I had / was having a shower.
2. We watched / were watching TV all evening.
3. Bill watched / was watching TV when Ann came in.
4. My father worked / was working hard all his life.
5. They got married while they studied / were studying at London University.
6. Yesterday we drove / were driving from Oxford to Edinburgh and back.
7. It was a nice evening, so she walked / was walking home from work.
4. Put in the past simple or the past continuous.
While I was walking down the road, I saw Bill (walk; see).
1. While I ……... the newspaper, the cat ……on to the table (read; jump).
2. Alan …………… Helen while he ………… in Morocco (meet; travel).