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Elementary nowadays and present continuous

Exercise ane The elementary present and the present continuous. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct present tense.

1Ann sees Paul putting-on his coat and says: Where you (go), Paul?

Paul: I (go) to buy some cigarettes. You (want) an evening paper?

2 Ann: No, thanks. Yous are always ownership cigarettes, Paul. How many you (smoke) a day?

Paul: I (not smoke) very many—perhaps twenty. Jack (smoke) far more than I (do). He (spend) £10 a week on cigarettes.

three Mary (see) Peter standing at the bus stop.

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Mary: Hullo, Peter. What coach you (look) for?

Peter: Hello, Mary. I (look) for a 9 or a 14.

4 Mary: Y'all usually (go) to work by car, don't y'all?

Peter: Aye, merely the car (belong) to my mother and she sometimes (desire) it. She (utilise) it today to take Tom to the dentist.

5 Mary: I ordinarily (go) by car too. Jack (have) me considering he (pass) my function on his style to the factory. But this week he (work) in a factory in the opposite management: so I (queue) like you.

6 Peter: Hither's a 9 now. You (come) on it or y'all (wait) for a xiv?

Mary: I (think) I'll take the nine. If I (look) for a 14 I may be belatedly, and if you (be) late at my office everyone (look) at you.

seven Mary and Ann (look) outside a telephone box. Inside the box a male child (dial) a number.

Mary: You (know) that male child?

Ann: Yeah, he's a friend of my brother'southward. He (phone) his daughter friend - every day from this box.

8 Mary: Where he (come) from?

Ann: He (come) from Japan. He'south a very clever boy; he (speak) iv languages.

nine Mary: I (wonder) what he (speak) now.

Ann: Well, his girl friend (come up) from Japan too; so I (suppose) he (speak) Japanese.

ten Information technology is 8.30. Tom and Ann (have) breakfast. They both (open) their letters.

Tom: No 1 e'er (write) to me. All I (get) is bills! Yous (have) anything interesting?

11 Ann: I've got a alphabetic character from Hugh. He (say) he (come) to London next calendar week and (desire) u.s.a. to meet him for dejeuner.

12 Peter: You (accept) traffic wardens in your land?

Pedro: No, I (non call up) so. Yous (not see) them in my town anyway. What exactly a traffic warden (exercise)?

13 Peter: He (walk) up and down the street and if a car (stay) too long at a parking place or (park) in a no-parking area he (stick) a parking ticket to the windscreen.

14 Expect! He (put) a ticket on Tom's car. Tom volition exist furious when he (see) it. He (detest) getting parking tickets.

15 Client: I (want) to buy a fur glaze. Have you any squeamish coats for most £500?

Assistant: I'm agape we simply (close), madam. It's four.55, and we always (shut) at 5.00 sharp on Fridays as Mr Jones the manager (not want) to miss his favourite television plan.

16 It is Friday evening and the Dark-brown family are at home. Mrs Brown (listen) to a concert on the radio; Mr Brownish (read) a newspaper, George Chocolate-brown (do) his homework and Ann Dark-brown (write) a alphabetic character.

17 Mr Dark-brown always (read) his newspapers in the evenings. Mrs Brown sometimes (knit) but she (non knit) this evening.

18 Mr Black oft (go) to the theatre just his wife (not go) very often. He (like) all sorts of plays. She (prefer) comedies.

nineteen Tonight they (picket) a very modernistic comedy. They (enjoy) information technology, but they (not sympathise) some of the jokes.

20 What (happen) in your form? The instructor (give) lectures every solar day?~

No. He (give) one lecture a week, and on the other days he (testify) films or (discuss) books with us.

21 A bus conductor (get) more practise than a double-decker driver. The driver only (sit) in his cab but the conductor (stand) and (walk) about and (run) upwardly and down the stairs.

22 Why that man (stand) in the middle of the road?

-He (try) to get across. He (wait) for a gap in the traffic.

- Why he (not use) the subway?

-Lots of people (non bother) to use the subway. They (prefer) to risk their lives crossing here.

23 You (wear) a new coat, aren't you lot?

-Yes. You (similar) it?

-The color (suit) you but information technology (not fit) yous very well. It's much too big.

24 All the guides here (speak) at least three strange languages, because a lot of foreign visitors (come) every summertime.

25 Paul (accept) a political party of French tourists circular at present and tomorrow an American party (come).

26 Englishmen very seldom (talk) on the Underground. They (adopt) to read their newspapers.

-Those two men in the corner (talk).

- But they (not talk) English.

27 Jones and Co. (accept) a sale at the moment. Shall we await in on our way habitation?

- Fd beloved to but I'm afraid I won't have time. I (meet) Tom at v.thirty.

28 You (go) out with Tom oft?

-I usually (go) past train, but this weekend I (go) by bus. It (accept) longer just it (price) less.

29Ann (on phone): Y'all (do) anything at the moment, Sally?

Sally: Yep. I (pack); I (catch) a airplane to New York in three hours' time.

Ann: Lucky daughter! How long you (stay) in New York?

thirtyPeter: You (go) out tonight, Paul?

Paul: No, I (stay) at habitation. The neighbours (come up) in to watch TV.

Peter: Yous (invite) the neighbours oft?

Paul: No, but they (invite) themselves whenever there is a adept program.

31 Jack: I just (become) out to go an evening newspaper.

Ann: Only it (pour)! Why you (not expect) till the pelting (stop)? (7 advise yous to wait.)

32 Lucy: Tom (get) up very early on simply he (wash) and (shave) and (become) his breakfast then quietly that I (not hear) a thing. But I (hear) him driving away from the firm considering his machine (make) a lot of noise.

33 Alice: My brother (get) up very early on as well. Only he (brand) such a lot of noise that he (wake) everybody upward. He (sing) in his bath and (bang) doors and (drop) things in the kitchen and (play) the radio very loudly.

34 Lucy: Why you (not ask) him to exist a bit quieter?

Alice: I (mention) it every night just it (not do) any expert. He (say) that he (not brand) a sound, and I (think) he really (believe) it.

35 Tom: Yous (see) that man at the comer? He (keep) stopping people and asking them questions. You lot (recall) he (ask) for directions?

Jack: No, I (expect) he (brand) a survey.

Tom: How you (brand) a survey?

Jack: Y'all (stop) people and (enquire) them questions and (write) the answers on a report sail.

36 In most countries a kid (start) school at six and (stay) for about v years in a primary schoolhouse. Then he (move) to a secondary schoolhouse. At 17 or xviii he (accept) an exam; if he (exercise) well in this exam he can continue to a university if he (wish).

Practice 2 The elementary present and the nowadays continuous. Put the verbs in brackets into the right present tense.

i Mrs Jones: My daughter never (write) to me and so I never (know) what she (do). Your son (write) to you, Mrs Smith?

Mrs Smith: Yeah, I (hear) from him every week. He (seem) to like writing letters.

ii These apples (cost) 40p a bag. Yous (call up) that is expensive?

-It (depend) on the size of the handbag.

3 I (run across) my solicitor tomorrow (I accept bundled this)', I (change) my will.

- You always (change) your will. Why you (non get out) it lone?

4 Yous (wait) very thoughtful. What y'all (think) about?

-I (think) well-nigh my retirement.

-Merely you're only 25. You only just (start) your career.

-I (know); but I (read) an commodity which (say) that a sensible human being (start) thinking near retirement at 25.

v My adjacent door neighbour always (knock) on my door and (ask) me to lend her lOp pieces.

- What she (practise) with them?

-She (put) them in her gas meter. I actually (not mind) lending her a few lOp pieces but what (annoy) me is that she (know) how many she (demand) each week but never (accept) the trouble to bring the correct number dwelling.

6 What she (do) if she (run out) of them when you are away?

-Oh, she (borrow) from her other neighbour, Mr White; merely this (take) longer considering he always (want) her to stay and chat and she (find) information technology quite hard to get abroad from him.

7 How much she (owe) you now?

-I (not know); I (not go on) an account. Anyway she (leave) next calendar week; she (get) married. I (effort) to call up of a suitable wedding nowadays.

8 Why you (non offer) to abolish her debt?

-That (sound) rather a mean sort of present. Anyway she probably (not realize) that she (owe) me money.

9 My brother (say) that people who (owe) him money always (seem) to forget near information technology, only people he (owe) money to e'er (remember) exactly.

10 I (not think) your brother (relish) the party. He (proceed) looking at his watch.

-Oh, I'grand sure he (enjoy) it. He always (savour) your parties. But I (know) he (desire) to exist dwelling house early on tonight considering he (expect) an of import phone call.

11 Jack: How much longer you lot (stay) in England?

Paul: Only ane more solar day. I (leave) tomorrow night. I (become) to Holland for ii weeks.

12 Jack: And y'all (come) dorsum to England afterwards that or you (go) dwelling?

Paul: It (depend) on my father. Only if he (agree) to let me keep studying here I'll certainly come up back. And I (expect) he will agree.

13 Paul: By the way, Jack, Ann (see) me off at Victoria tomorrow. Why you (not come) too? Y'all could have coffee with her afterwards. (Paul is advising/inviting Jack to come and see him off.)

14 Y'all (meet) that man at the corner of the street? He is a private detective. He (watch) No. 24.

-How you (know) he (sentinel) No. 24?

-Considering whenever anyone (come) out of, or (go) into, the house he (make) a note in his footling volume.

xv What all those people (do) in the middle of the street? And why they (wear) such extraordinary clothes?

-They (make) a film. Near of the crowd are local people who (work) every bit extras.

16 It (sound) groovy fun. You lot (think) I could get a job as a flick extra?

-I (not know) simply I (run across) Ann over there; when they (stop) this scene I'll ask her if they notwithstanding (accept) on extras.

17 Ann (act) in the film?

-She has a pocket-size part. She (not act) very well. I (imagine) she got the role because she (know) the director.

eighteen My brother (live) next door and his two children (come) and (meet) me every day. The boy (not bother) to knock at the door; he just (climb) in through the window; but the daughter e'er (knock).

19 Tom: We (move) into our new house tomorrow.

Beak: Merely why yous (leave) your present house? It (suit) you all.

Tom: Yes, I (know) it (do); but the Council (pull downwardly) all the houses on this side. They (widen) the road. They (say) it's a clogging.

20 If you lot (inquire) a friend if she (like) your new apparel she usually (say) 'Yep'; and then you (non know) whether she really (think) it (suit) yous or whether she merely (be) polite.

21 If you (want) a candid opinion y'all'd better ask my sister. She never (tell) white lies; she always (say) exactly what she (think).

22 Your sis'due south frankness (annoy) people?

-Yes, it (do). The average person (non desire) a truthful answer; he (want) you lot to say something agreeable.

23 I (hear) that you lot accept bought a new house.

-Yes, but I (not live) in it yet. They still (piece of work) on it, and the work (take) longer than I expected.

24 I (retrieve) repair jobs always (take) longer than one (expect). What they (do) now? - They (put) in new electrical points. They (seem) competent electricians but they (smoke) at their work and this (deadening) them down.

25 They always (hammer) next door.

-Yep, that house (keep) changing hands and the new owner ever (brainstorm) by putting in a new fireplace, and their fireplace is just on the other side of this wall so nosotros (hear) everything. The wall (milkshake), too.

26 Ann (stir) something in a saucepan and Mary (stand) abreast her belongings a cookery book.

Mary: Information technology (say) 'simmer', and you (boil) it, Ann.

Ann: I (not think) it (matter) if you (cook) it quickly; but I (non know) why information technology (non get) thick. Information technology unremarkably (thicken) at one time.

27 The hall (exist) painted at the moment, so it (non look) its best.

-But where are the painters? They (stop) work at 3.00?

-No, they are in the kitchen. They (have) a tea break.

28 What the word 'Establishment' (mean)? My dictionary (not requite) an explanation. - Information technology roughly (mean) the government and people who (have) power and authority.

29 If we (say) that Mr Brown (belong) to the Establishment we also (imply) that he (take) the existing organization. He (not try) to overthrow it.

30 All rich men (belong) to the Institution?

-Eye-anile rich men probably (practice) merely rich immature men like pop singers e'er (jeer) at the Establishment. The word (be used) importantly in a debasing sense.

31 The house reverse the college (be pulled) downward. That'south why we (utilise) the back archway at nowadays. If you (become) out by the front door yous (get) covered with dust.

32 Tom: I (smell) something burning!

Jack: And so (practice) 1.i (recollect) it (come) from the kitchen. Ann probably (iron). She normally (fe) and (spotter) Boob tube at the same time and if she (go) very interested in a programme she (forget) that she (press) a hot iron on to somebody'due south shirt. Mother (think) of selling the Television set up.

33 Mrs Jones: What you (await) for, Tom?

Mr Jones: I (look) for the garage key. I always (look) for the garage central, considering nobody ever (put) information technology back on its hook.

Mrs Jones: I ever (put) it back on its claw. Why you (non effort) your pockets? {I advise yous to try your pockets).

34 Imagine that yous (travel) by train, in a crowded compartment. 1 of the passengers (read) a newspaper; another (do) a crossword puzzle; another (expect out) of the window. All of a sudden the train (stop) with a wiggle and your suitcase (fall) off the rack on to somebody's toes.

35 This is a story nearly an invalid who (spend) near of the day in bed. He has a powerful telescope and he (amuse) himself by watching the activities of the people in the opposite houses. One mean solar day when he (watch) No. 24 he (run into) a murder being committed.

36 The cashier used to practise the accounts and I used to check his figures; now the reckoner (do) information technology all.

-And who (check) the calculator?

-No ane. The computer (non need) a second opinion.

-And what (happen) if the computer (make) a mistake?

-The computer never (make) a error.

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Exercise 1 (Negatives are given in their contracted class, affirmatives are not given in their contracted class, but in voice communication present continuous tenses are normally contracted in the affirmative.) 1 are you lot going; am going, do you desire 2 do you smoke; I don't fume, smokes, I do; spends 3 sees; are you lot waiting; am waiting 4 you usually get; belongs, wants; is using five go; takes, passes; is working, am queueing 6 Are you coming, are you waiting; call up, expect, are, looks 7 are waiting; is dialling; Do you know; phones eight does he come; comes; speaks 9 wonder, is speaking; comes, suppose, is speaking x are having; are opening; writes; get; take y'all (got) 11 says, is coming, wants 12 Do you have/Have you got; don't remember; don't see; does a traffic warden do thirteen walks, stays, parks, sticks 14 is putting; sees; hates 15 want; are only endmost; nosotros ever close, doesn't want sixteen is listening, is reading, is doing, is writing 17 reads; knits, isn't knitting 18 goes, doesn't go; likes; prefers nineteen are watching; are enjoying, don't sympathize 20 happens; Does the instructor requite; gives, shows, discusses 21 gets; sits, stands, walks, runs 22 is that man standing; is trying, is waiting; doesn't he use/isn't he using; don't bother; prefer 23 are wearing; Exercise you like; suits, doesn't fit 24 speak, come 25 is taking, is coming 26 talk; prefer; are talking; aren't talking 27 are having; am meeting; Do you go 28 go, am going; takes, costs 29 Are y'all doing; am packing, am catching; are you staying 30 Are you going; I am staying; are coming; Do you invite; invite 31 am only going; is pouring; don't yous wait; stops 32 gets, washes, shaves, gets, don't hear; hear, makes 33 gets; makes, wakes; sings, bangs, drops, plays 34 don't you ask; mention, doesn't practise; says, doesn't make, think, believes 35 Do you encounter; keeps; Practice you think, is asking; expect, is making; do y'all make; stop, inquire, write 36 starts, stays; moves; takes, does, wishes Exercise 2 one writes, know, is doing; Does your son write; hear; seems 2 cost; Do you retrieve; depends 3 am seeing; am changing; are always irresolute; don't yous leave 4 look/are looking, are yous thinking, am thinking; are only just starting; know, am reading, says, starts 5 is always knocking on my door and request; does she do; puts; don't heed, annoys, knows, needs, takes vi does she do, runs out; borrows, takes, wants, finds 7 does she owe; don't know, don't keep; is leaving, is getting; am trying eight don't you offer; sounds; doesn't realize, owes 9 says, owe, seem, owes, remember 10 don't recall, is enjoying; keeps, is enjoying; enjoys; know, wants, is expecting/expects 11 are you staying; am leaving; am going 12 are you lot coming, are y'all going; depends; agrees; look 13 is seeing; don't you come 14 Do you come across; is watching; practise y'all know, is watching; comes, goes, makes 15 are all these people doing, are they wearing; they are making; are working sixteen sounds; Practice you think; don't know, see, finish, are still taking on 17 Is Ann acting; doesn't act; imagine, knows 18 lives, come, see; doesn't carp, climbs, knocks 19 are moving; are you lot leaving; suits; know, does, is/are pulling downwards; are widening; say twenty ask, likes, says, don't know, thinks, suits, is merely being 21 desire; tells, says, thinks 22 Does your sister's frankness annoy; does; doesn't desire; wants 23 hear; am non living; are still working, is taking 24 think, take, expects; are they doing; are putting; seem, fume, slows 25 are ever hammering; keeps, begins, hear; shakes 26 is stirring, is continuing; says, are humid; don't think, matters, cook, don't know, isn't getting; thickens 27 is being painted, isn't looking; Do they stop; are having 28 does the word 'Establishment' mean; doesn't give; ways, take 29 say, belongs, imply, accepts; isn't trying/doesn't try xxx Practice all rich men belong; do, are ever jeering/e'er jeer; is used 31 is being pulled; are using; get, get 32 smell; do; call back, is coming; is probably ironing; irons, watches, gets, forgets, is pressing; is thinking 33 are you looking; am looking; am e'er looking, puts; put; don't you lot effort 34 are travelling; is reading, is doing, is looking out; stops, falls 35 spends; amuses; is watching, sees 36 does; checks; doesn't need; happens, makes; makes

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