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Choose Between Two Tenses

The document provides sentences with missing verbs to be completed in various tenses including simple present, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect, future, future continuous and future perfect. The sentences are grouped into different sections focusing on different verb tenses and forms to be used to complete the sentences.

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Choose Between Two Tenses

The document provides sentences with missing verbs to be completed in various tenses including simple present, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect, future, future continuous and future perfect. The sentences are grouped into different sections focusing on different verb tenses and forms to be used to complete the sentences.

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Complete the sentences with the preset simple or continuous of the verbs in the box.

Do, look for, think, try, need, cost, read, not believe, come, finish, do

1. ‘What ___________your mother ____________?’ ‘She’s a teacher.


2. Shh! I ______________________ to concentrate.
3. She ____________________ that you are right.
4. Why ____________ you ___________ that book?
5. Everything _______________ a lot these days.
6. I ___________________ to go to bed now.
7. I _________________ my mobile phone. Is it here?
8. What __________ she __________ ? She’s studying French.
9. He ___________________ work at six o’clock.
10. I ____________________ everything he says.
11. ‘___________ you ____________ ?’ ‘Yes, just a minute.’

Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box. Use the past simple or continuous.

Learn, explain, yawn, start, hear, see, not see, listen, lie, not have, not
wash, take, live,

1. Kevin ___________________ the car last week because he ________________ time.


2. She ____________________ a great deal about plants and animals while she
_____________________ up the tree.
3. Paparazzi _________________ photographs of her while she _______________ on the beach.
4. Mark ________________ while the teacher ____________________ the French revolution.
5. I ____________________ Jane at the conference on the environment, but she
____________________ me as she ____________________ attentively.
6. ________ you ____________ to worry when you ________________ the news?

Complete the sentences with the present perfect simple, present perfect continuous or the past
simple.
1. I _______________ (lose) my glasses. I can’t find them.
2. ________________ (you / hear) the explosion in the factory last night?
3. Jill _______________ (buy) a flat near the beach last month.
4. His hair is very short. He ________________ (have) a haircut.
5. The workmen ________________ (paint) the house all morning.
6. The pupils __________________ (dicuss) the plans for the school trip for the last four hours.
7. Last Monday I __________________ (arrive) to school late. I ________________ (try) to get
into the classroom but the teacher ________________ (forbid) it.
8. ___________________ (you / know) many foreign people this year?
9. My mobile phone isn’t here any more. Somebody _________________ (take) it.
10. I __________________ (watch) television the whole afternoon.
11. I __________________ (not / manage) to finish a single thing this morning.
12. I __________________ (manage) to write to my friend yesterday but it was a bit difficult.
13. Take an umbrella. It _________________ (rain) since breakfast-time.
14. She _________________ (not / bother) to telephone once this week.
15. We _________________ (watch) a new series on TV last night from 9.30 to 10.30.
Complete the sentences with the present perfect simple, present perfect continuous or the past
simple.
1. I _________________________ (own) this watch since 2002.
2. The detectives __________________________ (investigate) the robbery for months now, but
they ________________________ (not / solve) it yet.
3. When _________________________ (you / arrive) at the concert?
4. Mrs Smith _________________________ (tour) Italy for the last three weeks. She
________________________ (visit) the Leaning Tower of Pisa and she
__________________________ (climb) to the top of St Peter’s in Rome.
5. Mike __________________________ (write) four reports so far this week and he feels like he
________________________ (write) for a month!
6. They _______________________ (travel) to England in the summer.
7. He _________________________ (visit) his son in hospital three times this week.
8. I __________________________ (know) Tom all my life. Lately, he
_________________________ (drive) me crazy with his idea of climbing Mount Everest. I
_______________________ (not / decide) yet whether to ignore him or to get excited about the
idea.
9. We _________________________ (buy) this computer two years ago.
10. In the last few weeks, I _______________________ (have) problems with my car. I
_______________________ (have) this car for over ten years and I _______________________
(drive) it all these years without any problems. However, for the last few weeks it
_________________________ (break down) regularly.

Complete the sentences with the past simple or the past perfect of the verbs in the box.
Hear, never /study, get, go, come, be, start, not/sleep, never / visit, be

1. Peter _________________ English until he _________________ to London.


2. That ________________ the second time we ___________________ that blue joke.
3. Everyone ___________________ to dance by the time we _________________ to the party.
4. Susan ___________________ exhausted because she _____________________ well the night
before.
5. We ___________________ so many museums before we __________________ to live in
Madrid.
Complete the sentences with the past simple, past perfect simple or past perfect continuous of the
verbs in brackets.
1. Mario _____________________ (feel) very nervous when he first drove in Britain because he
_______________________ (not / drive) on the left before.
2. I ___________________ (not / laugh) at the joke because I ________________ (hear) it before.
3. Maria’s sister ______________________ (study) at university for eight years before she finally
_____________________ (pass) her exams.
4. ‘I’m really sorry I was so late last night.’ ‘That’s OK. We ____________________ (not / wait)
long.
5. We __________________ (leave) the restaurant when we ___________________ (have) dinner.
6. The strange thing was that we _______________________ (just / talk) about ghosts when we
heard the noise upstairs.
7. When I found my wallet I ______________________ (discover) that somebody
_____________________ (take) the credit card out.
8. I ______________________ (stand) there for nearly half an hour when I
______________________ (realize) I was at the wrong bus stop.
Complete the sentences with the correct future. Use will, be going to, present continuous, future
continuous or future perfect.
1. We ________________ (destroy) our planet if we don’t stop polluting it.
2. My cousins ____________ (come) next week.
3. This time next week I ___________________ (fly) to Paris.
4. She ____________ (finish) the exam by twelve o’clock.
5. What ___________________ (you / do) at three o’clock tomorrow.
6. Why are you turning on the radio? I ____________ (hear) the news.
7. Someone’s at the door. I ____________ (open) it.
8. They ___________ (do) their homework by tomorrow.
9. _____________ (he work) late tonight?
10. Why don’t you meet me at two tomorrow? I ___________ (shop) in town during the afternoon
11. They say this summer ____________ (not be) as hot as last year.
12. He _____________ (move) to the country next month.
13. I ___________ (finish) this project by 5 o’clock.
14. Listen to the wind. There ___________________ (be) a storm.
15. I think I _________________ (leave) the towel. I can use a T-shirt if necessary.
16. ________ you____________ (visit) your grandparents tomorrow?
17. ‘The window is open.’ ‘Don’t worry I ___________________ (close) it.
18. James is going around the world. This time next year he ___________________ (sunbathe) on
the beach.
19. What _____________ (you do) tomorrow evening?
20. _________ you __________________ (finish) your studies by 2015?
21. We __________________ (celebrate) my mum’s birthday this weekend.
22. I ____________________ (be) an astronaut. I’ve passed my exams!
23. He __________ probably ______________ (go) to Australia this summer.
24. I can’t go out at seven. I ______________________ (finish) my homework.

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