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Ex 37 Complete the following sentences, using the Future Perfect Tense.
1. By the time he arrives they — (leave). 2. She is ill now. By the first of April she — (be in hospital for three weeks). 3. He has bought this TV set on credit. He — (pay all the money by the 21st of August). 4. How long has she stayed with your family? By the end of the month she —. 5. She has lived here a long time. By 1990 she —. 6. He is still a school boy, but by this time next year he — (leave school).
Ex 38 Translate the following sentences, using the Future Perfect Tense.
1. Я надеюсь, что к концу собрания мы уладим этот вопрос. 2. На будущий год к этому времени он проработает на нашем заводе тридцать лет. 3. К тому времени, когда он приедет, я буду жить на юге уже две недели. 4. К тому времени, когда ты приедешь домой, ты забудешь все, что я говорил тебе. 5. К 1 Мая они уже переедут в новую квартиру. 6. Они закончат строительство школы к началу учебного года.
Ех 39 Open the brackets, using the correct tense form. Explain the use of the tenses.
Mr Sherlock Holmes (sit) one morning at the breakfast table in his room in Baker Street. His friend Dr* Watson (stand) near the window, examining a walking stick which a visitor (forget) the day before. "To Dr Mortimer, from his friend," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884". Sherlock Holmes suddenly (turn) to Watson and (say): "The owner of this stick (have) a dog which (be) larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff."
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"How you (know)?" (ask) Watson in surprise.
"I (examine) that stick carefully and (notice) the marks of a dog's teeth on it," (answer) Holmes. "They (be) too broad for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff. Probably the dog often (carry) the stick behind its master. I think it must be a spaniel, in fact it (be) a spaniel."
Holmes (leave) the breakfast-table and (stand) near the window as he (say) this. Watson (look) at him in surprise and (ask): "How can you be so sure of that?"
"For the simple reason that I (see) the dog at our door and I (hear) the bell which its master (ring). I wonder why Dr Mortimer (want) to see Mr Sherlock Holmes. Well, we soon (know). Come in," he (add), there (be) a knock at the door.
(After "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by A. Conan Doyle)
