Name the tense you have used in each gap, and match them to the correct description.

a) a state beginning in the past and leading up to the present

b) an event at some time in past - not exactly specified

c) something that happened before a given time/date/event in the past

d) something that will or should be completed by a specified time in the future

Each of these sentences has a mistake with verbs. Find the mistakes and correct them. Use contracted forms.

1 After I was there for two years, I decided to leave the music school.

2 By the time she's nineteen, she'll be away from home for two years.

3 I think that Jose goes to the football game every week last month.

4 He always enjoys music from a very early age.

5 By the end of December, I finish my course.

6 She visits New York every summer since her friend moved there.

4. Which contractions can be used with both pronouns and proper names?

's (has) ‘ve (have) 'd (had) 'II (will)

Simple v continuous form

3.

1 Highlight the perfect continuous verbs in the sets of sentences below. Then complete the last sentence in each set using a perfect continuous verb in the correct tense - past present or future. Use contracted forms.

Example:

A Repeated habit

1 I've been buying CDs off the Internet for years now.

2 She'll have been going out with Chris for three years soon.

3 I had been going (go) to the gym regularly all that year.

B __________________

1 I've been working as a waitress recently to earn enough money to live on.

2 Before she moved into the house, she………………………………… (stay) in a small motel.

C__________________

1 We'd been trying to sort out the casting of the film for some time by then.

2 We've been looking for the right person to play the part for ages now.

3 We………………………………… (work) on location for six months by the time we finish the film.

D __________________

1 Julio will have been training for the whole season, so he'll be looking fit.

2 She'd been studying all night, and she had big circles under her eyes.

3 Zoe………………………………… (practise) really hard, and it shows.

E __________________

1 Tom had been dreaming of working in the movies for years when he got the role.

2 She's been hoping to get an interview with the director for the last six months.

3 I………………………………… (wart) here for an hour soon.

Each set of sentences above demonstrates one use of the form of the verb. Match each set to the use below, and then write the use in the space above the correct set.

Repeated habit A

Results apparent later_____

Temporary activity or state_______

Duration emphasised_____.

Incomplete action —

4. What difference (if any) does the change from simple to continuous make to the following pairs of sentences?

1 a) I've bought some new clothes.

b) I've been buying some new clothes.

2 a) Colin's living in London.

b) Colin's been living in London.

3 a) They'd been watching television before they went out.

b) They watched television before they went out.

4 a) I haven't felt very well lately.

b) I haven't been feeling very well lately.

5 a) I'll have finished by six o'clock.

b) I'll finish by six o'clock.

6 a) I've been to Paris three times

b) I went to Paris three times.

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