Modul 5: Tenses 120: Set 6: Sentences 51-60

Your 5 questions to answer:

1. Is there a time-marker in the sentence? What is it?
2. What time does it refer to? PAST/ NON-PAST/ PAST and NON-PAST?
3. Look at the time-marker and the verb. Is there a ‘continuous meaning’?
4. Look at the time-marker again. Is there a ‘perfect meaning’?

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51. I (swim) all day, and now I (be) tired.

52. I (swim) all day yesterday.

53. I saw Susan last week, but I (not see) her since.

54. I always (arrive) early.

55. The Rhine (flow) through Germany.

56. My dog (attack) the postman just as he (put) the letters into the letterbox.

57. What you (do) when the doorbell (ring)? – I (make) a cake.

58. And what you (do) when you (hear) the bell? – I (go) to answer it, of course.

59. But when I (open) the door, there (be) nobody there.

60. I (be) so busy recently.