Упр. 42. Поставьте глаголы в скобках в Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous.

Упр. 42. Поставьте глаголы в скобках в Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous.

1. Look! Somebody ________________(break) the window.

2. I wonder if John _________________(forget) my number. I ___________________(expect)

him to call for the past two hours.

3. You look very upset. What _______________________(happen)?

4. You ____________________(not finish) that book yet? You _________________________

read it for more than a week.

5. The meat must be nearly ready. I _________________________(cook) it for nearly an hour.

6. What you _____________________(do) for the last two hours? - I _____________________

(sit) here working at this problem.

7. I ________________(lose) my key. Can you help me look for it?

8. My brother is an actor. He _____________________(appear in several films).

9. Sorry! I’m late. – That’s all right. I _______________________(not wait) long.

10. She just __________________(sell) two of her paintings. – She’s lucky. I _______________

(paint) for 5 years and I ____________________(not sell) a single picture yet.

11. He _______________(sleep) since ten o’clock. It’s time he woke up.

12. I _______________(pump) up three tyres. Would you like to do the fourth?

13. That boy _______________ (eat) seven ice-creams.

14. That helicopter ____________________ (fly) round the house for the last hour; do you think

it’s taking photographs?

15. We ___________________ (walk) ten kilometers.

16. We ____________________(walk) for three hours.

17. I _____________________(work) for him for ten years and he never once say “Good

morning” to me.

18. The radio ___________________(play) since 7 a.m. I wish someone would turn it off.

19. He __________________(study) English for two years and doesn’t even know the alphabet

yet.

THE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

Past Perfect Continuous Tenseобразуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to beв форме Past Perfect (had been) и формы причастия настоящего времени смыслового глагола: I had been working,he had been working.

       Отрицательная форма – I / he /she /we / you / they hadn’t been working

                                                      

           Вопросительная форма  - HadI (he / she / we / you / they) been working?

                                   

СЛУЧАИ УПОТРЕБЛЕНИЯ:

Past Perfect Continuousупотребляется для выражения длительного прошедшего действия, начавшегося ранее другого прошедшего действия, выраженного в Past Simple и еще происходившего в момент его совершения. При употреблении этого времени всегда указан период времени, в течение которого совершается действие.

Past Perfect Continuous употребляется с такими обозначениями времени, как for an hour (a month, a long time)в течение часа (месяца, долго времени), since yesterdayсо вчерашнего дня, since five o’clockс пяти часов и т.п.

It had been rainingfor two hours                  Дождь шел (уже) два часа, когда я

when I left home.                                            вышел из дому.

We couldn’t go out because it                                         Мы не могли выйти на улицу, потому

had been raining since early morning.              что с раннего утра шел дождь.

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