Времена группы Perfect Continuous Tenses

Present Perfect Continuous используется для выражения действия, которое началось в прошлом и длилось на протяжении определенного периода или все еще длится в этот момент, или только что закончилось.

Слова: for, since, when, how long.

Past Perfect Continuous выражает длительное действие, которое началось до какого – либо момента в прошлом, или длилось в этот момент, или закончилось непосредственно перед ним.

Future Perfect Continuous показывает действие, которое уже длилось в течение какого – то отрезка времени до определенного момента в будущем и либо продолжало длиться, либо завершилось.

Put the verbs in brackets into the proper present tense (Present Indefinite, Present Continuous or Present Perfect).

1. It is raining and Ann … my umbrella. (to take)

2. The lesson … yet. (not to begin)

3. I often … people say that the weather in Leningrad is bad. (to hear)

4. Peter, what … Bob … there? (to do) – He … his exercise book, he … it. (to look for, to lose) – Why, it … here! (to lie)

5. After breakfast I … some more things to do. (to have)

6. I must pack my kit-bag. I must put my bathing suit and a towel into it and the sandwiches, which my mother … for the journey. (to make)

7. At that very moment I hear the doorbell ring. I … to open the door and let my friends in. (to go)

2. Supply Past Indefinite or Past Perfect. Translate the sentences.

1. When I was 20, I … to Moscow to study English. (to go) At that time I thought I … English quite well because I … it for nearly ten years. (to know, to study)

2. … to Moscow in August. (to come) I … never … to a big city, so everything … me very much. (to be, to interest) I … a taxi and … straight to the hostel where I was to stay till the end of the entrance examinations. (to take, to go)

3. I … to enter the philological faculty after I … to a friend of mine, who is a student of the English department. (to decide, to speak)

4. By the time I … to the University, the meeting … already …. (to get, to begin)

Put the verbs into the Past Indefinite, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Tenses.

1. By 1836 Dickens … already … popular with the English readers. (to become)

2. Dickens … shorthand before he could do some reporting in the House of Commons. (to study)

3. After he … school he … a clerk in a lawyer’s office. (to finish, to become)

4. Dickens … already … word-wide fame when he … to write Oliver Twist. (to earn, to begin)

5. Dickens … to read at an early age and … many books in his childhood. (to learn, to read)

6. After Dickens … much he … a writer and … his childhood and youth in some of his famous novels. (to suffer, to become, to describe)