present tenses in english, Exercises of Grammar and Composition

Download present tenses in english and more Exercises Grammar and Composition in PDF only on Docsity! TENSES T 20 Fill in the correct form of the verb – All tenses 1. My family have ___________________ (buy) some land in southern France recently. They ___________________ (build) a summer house there at the moment. 2. Andy and Mary ___________________ (go) to a concert tomorrow night. They ____________________________ (look forward to) it the whole week. 3. Jonathon ___________________ (watch) the news on TV every day and it ___________________ (help) him with his English. 4. My car ___________________ (break) down when I ___________________ (drive) home from work. I ________________________ (fix) it if I ___________________ (know) what was wrong. But I didn’t so ___________________ (have) to take it to the garage. 5. When he ___________________ (found) Microsoft, Bill Gates was only 20 years old. He ___________________________ (already write) his first computer programme six years earlier. 6. An accident ___________________ (happen) near my house last night. A car _______________ (hit) a young man. He ___________________ (ride) his bike when someone in front of him suddenly ___________________ (open) a car door. Many people ___________________ (see) the accident. The police ___________________ (interrogate) them last night. 7. Mrs Smith said that one day she ________________________ (retire) from teaching. She said that she ___________________ (spend) her new free time learning about computers. 8. I ______________________ (not sleep) at all last night. Someone ___________________ (listen) to music all night. 9. I ___________________ (see) a film a week ago, but I _______________________ (not enjoy) it very much because I _______________________ (already read) the book. If I ___________________ (not read) the book I ____________________________ (probably enjoy) the film more. 10. The judge sentenced the man to eight years in prison because he ___________________ (rob) a bank. 11. They ________________________ (stand) in the queue for over an hour when the manager ___________________ (tell) them that there were no more tickets. 12. Alan ___________________ (be) in the car accident yesterday. The other driver ___________________ (lose) control of his car because he ___________________ (fall) asleep. 13. She ___________________ (not see) her father since he ___________________ (start) to work in Marseille two years ago. 14. I ___________________ (sleep) when the fire broke out. 15. Linda phoned and explained that she _________________________ (not can) to come to the party the next day because she ___________________ (be) still sick. 16. I ________________________ (just see) the film “The Da Vinci Code”. – ___________________ (you see) it too? – No, I ___________________ (not have) but I ___________________ (read) the book. 17. My sister ___________________ (fly) home from London today. Her flight ___________________ (arrive) in an hour so I ___________________ (leave) for the airport right now to get there in time. 18. Unless he ___________________ (sell) more he won’t get much money. 19. While he ___________________ (wait) for the bus there ___________________ (be) a robbery at the bank. After the robbers ___________________ (go) away the police ___________________ (come) but they ___________________ (not can) to catch them. 20. I ___________________ (use) to ski when I was at the university but I ___________________ (break) a leg five years ago and since then I ___________________ (not ski) any more.