Use PRESENT PERFECT TENSE or PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS to fill in the blanks:
1. I’m trying to study. I have been trying to study for the last hour, but something always seems to interrupt me. I think I’d better go to the library.
2. The children are playing basketball right now. They have been playing for almost two hours. They must be getting tired.
3. The telephone has rung four times in the last hour, and each time it has been for my roommate.
4. The telephone has been ringing for almost a minute. Why doesn’t someone answer it?
5. It has been raining all day. I wonder when it will stop.
6. We have had three accidents so far this week. I wonder how many more we will have if you keep using the tools carelessly.
7. We have been living here since last June.
8. My little son is dirty from head to foot because he has been playing in the mud.
9. What’s the matter? Your eyes are red and puffy. I hope you have not cried. Oh, now I understand. You have been peeling some onions.
10. Hello, Rob. I’m happy to see you again. I haven't seen you for weeks. What have you been doing lately?
11. I haven't been able to reach my boss on the phone yet. I have been trying for the last twenty minutes, but the line has been busy.
12. We have had three major snowstorms so far this winter. I wonder how many more we will have.
13. I have written to them three times, but I still haven’t received a reply.
14. A: Dr. Harrison is a good teacher. How long has he been teaching at the university? B: He has been teaching here for almost 25 years. 15. A: What are you going to order for dinner? B: Well, I have had pizza. So I think, I’ll order that.
16. My uncle has been painting the outside of his house for three weeks and he’s still not finished.
17. The Smiths are presently in Tunisia. They have been travelling throughout North Africa since the middle of May. They’ll return home in another month.
1) Portuguese is spoken in Brazil
2) A new road is planned near my house by the Government.
3) This house was built by my grandfather in 1943
4) Guernica had been painted by Picasso at that time.
5) The office was cleaned by the cleaner
6) Three books were written by him before 1867
7) You will be told later by John
8) The deal will be signed by this time tomorrow.
9) The work should be done by someone
10) Jimmy might have been delayed by the traffic
11) Mr. Brown is loved by everyone
12) A new stadium is being built near the station
13) The princess was eaten by the wolf
14) The story was told by someone at six o'clock
15) The milk was all drunk by somebody
16) The windows were cleaned by me before the storm
17) The computer will be repaired by the workman tomorrow
18) The passive will be studied in the next year by the students.
19) The dinner might be cooked by James
20) My wallet must have been taken by somebody
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Напишите след. предложения в вопросительной и отрицательной формах. 1) they stayed in moscow last summer. 2) he always wanted to learn english. 3) we arrived home late. 4) he spent two months is the south. 5) they took their children to the park. 6) i left home early. употребите глаголы, данные в скобках, ф форма present или past simple , в активном или страдательном залоге. перевидите предложения на язык. 1) the film much ( to speak) about. 2) the mail ( to deliver) at ten o'clock every day. 3) many houses ( to build) in our town now. 4) the entire city ( to destroy) by the fire in 1066. 5) he ( to send) to new york last month. 6) it ( to design) by french engineer last century.