8. 6 the Past Continuous and Past Perfect Continuous

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The Past Continuous:

- denotes an action going on at a definite moment in the past, no previous duration is expressed.

□ I looked out of the window. It was raining. □ It had been raining for days.

EXERCISES

Ex. 23. (A, B) Put the verb into the correct form, the Past Perfect Continuous or the Past Continuous.

Examples: Their swimming suits were wet. They had been swimming. She was in the swimming pool. She was swimming.

1. The boy was leaning against the tree, out of breath. He_____________ (run) very fast.

2. He came into the kitchen. His parents stopped talking. They________________ (talk)

about him.

3. She came into the room. Her husband was at his desk. He________________ (write).

4. When the newly weds arrived at the restaurant, their guests________________ (wait)

for them. They felt rather hungry because they______________ (wait) for a long time.

5. Julia__________________ (stand) at the bus stop for twenty minutes when Ivo drove

up and got out of the car.

Ex. 24. (В, С) Put the verb in brackets into the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous.

1. When I (get) home that evening, my little son (eat) dinner himself for the first time. 2. My sister's wedding (be) the only thing everybody (talk) at home for the last two weeks. 3. They (go) back to the hotel and up to their suite, where they (expect) the inspector at six-thirty. 4. Presently he (turn) to look at the corner where she (stand). 5. Scarlett, who (fan) herself with a turkey-tall fan, (stop) abruptly. 6. He just (leave) for the airport when I (call). 7. "Who are you thinking of?" he (ask) after he (look) at me for a few seconds. 8. They (stand) in the open front doorway, waiting for her to come in out of the rain. 9. Their daughter (not/say) where she (sleep) and she (have) a curiously looking box in her hands.

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Ex. 25. (А, В, С) Put the verb in brackets into the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous.

1. Nobody (know) where Smith (go). 2. A girl who (stand) under the beech tree (come) up to us. 3. Mary (speak) to Mr Boxwell when I (see) her in the corridor this morning. 4. John (park) the car in Fifth Avenue when a young man in black glasses (appear) from nowhere and (stand) before him. 5. He again (come) to the village where he (live) in his childhood. 6. While we (talk), there (come) a loud knock at the door. 7. He (look) into the drawing-room. ,The old man (sleep) peacefully in the armchair at the fire-place. 8. When their visitor (leave) John and his mother (stand) near the window. 9. When he (dress), he (go) downstairs, (write) a long letter to his parents and another to his sister. 10. She (welcome) her with a bright smile and (turn) back to the offensive dandilions she (fight) with. 11. While she (read) this notice, a middle-aged woman (appear) in the doorway. 12. When he (come) back to the conference room, he (see) that the situation (change). 13. She (sit) at the table only five minutes when a car (come). 14. Their father (be) still silent, even when they (have) coffee. 15.The three (sit) down to the meal that Susan (prepare). 16. He (sit) thinking of his wife whom he (leave) alone in Europe. 17. They (look) over the accounts together and (find) where she (make) her mistake. 18.1 (be) surprised at John's failure because he (be) such a good student previously.

Ex. 26. (В, С) Put the verb in brackets into the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous.

1. How your chief______________ (find out) that you______________ (come) to work

late? 2. I_____________ (leave) my house yesterday in a hurry, but I______________

(not/go) far before I______________________ (discover) that it______________ (be)

going to rain and I______________ (leave) my umbrella at home. 3. He told me that his aunt

_____________ (live) with them for three months. 4. The discovery of the art of writing

_____________ (enable) the Ancient Egyptians to remember what their ancestors

____________ (do) before them. 5. The Romans______________ (destroy) Jerusalem

with fire and_____________ (kill) many of the inhabitants. 6. He scarcely___________

(get) outside the door when he (hear) Wardle's voice talking loudly. 7.1 knew right away that

that was the place I__________________ (look for) all my life. 8. At nine o'clock that evening

a long black Packard roadster________________ (draw) up to her door, and Arnie

_____________ (step) out of the front seat where he_____________ (sit) with the driver

and a girl between them. 9. Mrs Monroe put down the telephone receiver. She_______________

(ring) twice and each time the answer___________ (be) the same: Miss Marple was out. 10.1

_____________ (shout) to him to stop, but at that moment he_____________ (run) too

fast to hear. 11. He________________ (pick) up the book he_______________ (read) before

I_____________ (come) into the room, and_____________ (turn) the corner of the page

to mark the place where he_____________ (stop) reading. 12. He____________ (not /

eat) since nine that morning and his stomach___________ (growl) with hunger. 13. No

sooner they___________ (arrive) at this point than a most violent and startling knocking was

heard at the door.

Ex. 27. (В, С) Translate into English.

1. Она смертельно поссорилась с моим мужем десять минут назад. 2. На старой даме было бархатное платье, которое не видело света двадцать лет. 3. Гости ушли.

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Теперь они сидели одни перед камином в гостиной. 4. Люди, которых она встречала по дороге домой, улыбались ей и спрашивали, как она провела отпуск. 5. Я думаю, он показал мне около тридцати картин. Это был результат шести лет, в течение которых он рисовал. 6. Она больше не получала от него писем. Он перестал писать за три года до этого. 7. Я переписал письмо от Элизы, положил его в конверт и пошел на почту. Снег прекратился. Когда я вернулся, я выпил чаю и сел к пианино. 8. Она изучала искусство рисования три года, прежде чем стала работать в издательстве. Когда я попросил ее сделать иллюстрации к моей книге, она заканчивала иллюстрировать свою первую книгу. 9. Когда я вчера принимала ванну, как всегда, зазвонил телефон. 10. Перед отъездом мы зашли к миссис Чандлер. Мы не видели ее некоторое время, и моя сестра заметила, что она сильно изменилась. 11. Не успели они проехать и пяти миль, как их остановила полиция. 12. Он путешествовал уже два дня, но выглядел свежим и не чувствовал усталости. 13. Буря утихла, небо прояснилось, и опять светило солнце. 14. Мистер Мэтлок посмотрел на своего сына, его взгляд смягчился. 15. Прошлым летом я посетила места, где я провела детство. Деревца, которые отец посадил, когда я была еще ребенком, стали теперь большими высокими деревьями.

8.7 THE FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

I'll have been reading

I won't have been reading (shan't)