Modul 5: Tenses 120: Set 8: Sentences 71-80

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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71. While Peter (sleep), an aeroplane flew over his house.

72. Heidi (teach) for 8 hours when she received an urgent phone call.

73. We (leave) for Spain in 3 weeks’ time. That’s a fact.

74. Before Kate (leave) for work, her daughter (ride) her bike around the block 3 times.

75. My daughters (go) to the music school on Mondays.

76. I (order) the cake for the party well before my son’s birthday.

77. The baby will go to bed as soon as he (finish) his dinner.

78. My wife (not open) a book to read lately.

79. While Greg was fishing, his girlfriend (peel) potatoes

80. The train just (leave) the station when a young man came to the platform running.