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REVISION OF TENSES

(Present Simple, Past Simple, Future Simple, Present Continuous, Past


Continuous, Present Perfect, Past perfect, Future Perfect Simple, Present Perfect
Continuous, plus Sequence of Tenses)

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct place and explain why we need to use this or that tense in each
sentence.
1. Our plane takes off late in the evening, so if you __________ (to come) at 6 o'clock, we still _________ (to
pack). 2. I ___________ (to study) about 4 hours when he ________ (to come). 3. The play ___________(not
yet to begin) and the people _________(to talk) in the hall. 4. Yesterday I _______ (to buy) a new pair of
sunglasses, as I _______(to lose) the old ones. 5. We _______ (to walk) in silence. He already __________ (to
tell) me all things that _______ (to be) interesting about himself, and I _______ (to have) nothing new to tell
him. 6. The moon _________ (not to appear) yet but the stars __________ (to twinkle) in the sky. 7. A red bird
__________ (to fly) over the city. Other birds _______ (to fly) away to Egypt two weeks before, but this bird
_________ (to stay) in the city. 8. What he ________ (to do) these five months? 9. Where is your baggage? —
I ________ (to leave) it at the airport. I _______ (to take) it tomorrow when Josh ______ (to come) to help me.
10. When you ________ (to see) him last? 11. Don't come into the bedroom! Ben ______ (to sleep) there, and
he always _________ (to wake) up when somebody__________(to open) the door. 12. ____ you ever
_______(to act) on the stage? — Yes, that's what I ____________ (to do) for the last six years. 13. I
__________ (to meet) him when he _______ (to walk) across the street.

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense Put the verbs in the correct tense
and explain the use of each tense 1. When I ______ (to arrive) at
1. My brother Ralph _________ (to return) home Donna's house last Monday, she
after four years of studying in Italy. During that _______ (to read) a new magazine.
time he ________ (to study) law. Now he ______ She _______ (to say) she _______ (to
(to hope) to find a good job. 2. The performance give) it to me soon. Today I _______
________ (to be) a greater success than we (to take) it from her. Now I
__________(to expect). 3. He ______ (to tell) me _________ (to read) it. I ________
that if no one ______ (to come) to meet me at the (to finish) it by Friday. If you wish, I
airport, I _______ (can) leave the luggage in _______ (to give) it to you on
storage cases and go to the hotel where the Saturday when you __________ (to
company ________ (to book) a suite for me. 4. come) to my place. 2. When will he
Your wife ______ (to be) here five minutes ago, come? We _____________ (to wait)
but you _______ (to be) out. She _______ (to ask) for him for already half an hour. 3.
me to tell you that she _______ (to come) again The professor _________ (to thank)
tonight. 5. ______ you _________ (to read) everybody when he _________ (to
Charlie and Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl? — leave) the conference. 4. We already
No, I ____________ (not yet to read) it. But I ______ (to drive) about seven miles
____________ (to hear) that it __________ (to when my sister, who _______ (to
be) a very interesting book. I ________ (to look) out of the window for the last
read) it as soon as I ______ (to buy) it. 6. When we five or ten minutes, suddenly cried
________ (to come) to the airport, the plane she forgot her ID at home 5. When
_______ already ______ (to land). morning came, the storm ______
already ______ (to stop), but the
snow ____ still __________(to fall).
Write the form of the following tenses in the gaps 6. Yesterday by eight o'clock he
Present perfect Simple __________________________________ ________________ (to finish) all his
Present Perfect Continuous ______________________________ homework, and when I ___________
Future Perfect _________________________________________ (to come) to his place at nine, he
Future Perfect continuous _______________________________ _________________ (to cook).
Past Perfect Simple ____________________________________
Past Continuous ______________________________________
Present Continuous ____

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