In the World of Grammar

Упражнение 20
Поставьте глаголы в правильную форму в Past Simple, Past Progressiveили Past Perfect.
A December Joke
“Fog!” said the visitor to a group of gentlemen sitting in a London club. (say)
“You don’t get fogs in London. The other day the fog so thick that I not see the pipe I . (be/can/smoke)
“Where that?” one of the listeners. “Manchester?” (be/ask)
“That’s the most curious part of it. The fog so thick that I unable to discover what town I really in.” (be/be/be)

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Sailor’s Story
“I into bathe,” a sailor, “but before I long in the water I a huge shark making rapidly towards me. (go/say/be/see)
What to be done? When it within a yard of me I round and under the shark. (be/be/turn/dive)
Then taking a knife out of my pocket, I the monster”. (kill)
"But with your clothes on?” the astonished listener. (you/bathe/ask)
“Well,” the sailor, ”you needn’t be so particular.” (answer)
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Discover
It reminds me of a story my Dad used to tell me about the teacher who a class of little girls. (teach)
She to tell them about everything that in recent years,- the telephone, the radio, and so on. (try/be discovered)
She ,”What is there today that not here forty years ago? (ask/be)
A bright little girl up and ,”Me!” And she is right. (jump/shout)
That is the most important thing that is here today and not here forty years ago. (be)
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Упражнение 21
Выберите правильный вариант.
1. I was talking over the phone when they brought the letter.
2. He quickly
everything he
at school.
3. They
in the room when the taxi
.
4. I visited Brazil in April. I
at a nice hotel for a fortnight.
5. I
at the hotel for a fortnight when I
your letter.
6. A man
unconscious for a few minutes when an ambulance
.
7. Hardly I
speaking with a porter when the phone
again.
8. And I
writing you instead of going to the seaside, as I
before.
9. First I
the phone, and then I read your letter.
10. The musician
the piano for a whole hour when we came in.

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Упражнение 22
Определите, являются ли следующие предложения правильными (True) или неправильными (False).
1. She had been crying for few minutes more before she could stop. (True)
2. We were talking for some time when the bell rang.
3. She was cooking dinner when her husband returned home.
4. The children had cleaned the front step for an hour before their mother called them for dinner.
5. The family watched TV when I came home.
6. She thanked me for what I had done.
7. He had entered the room, took a book from the shelf, sat down and only then looked at me.
8. She had been cooking for half an hour when she remembered that she had run out of bread.
9. How long had you been knowing Mike before you got married?
10. When she came home yesterday?

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