Modul 5: Tenses 120: Set 11: Sentences 101-110

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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101. Just as our baby boy (take) his first steps, we (pick up) the phone and started filming it.

102. Last Sunday, the kids already (prepare) the room by the time the film (start).

103. Just as Jane (speak) on the phone, the milk on the stove (overboil).

104. Frank finally met his friend who he (not see) for a long time as he (walk) through the park.

105. I think I (put) the pizza into the oven while you (lay) the table.

106. I (buy) an electric car in 2 years.

107. We (work) too hard in the last 3 weeks.

108. My pilot friends (take) at least 10 celebrities to highly exotic locations in the past few weeks.

109. I (record) a video at the moment.

110. Life (be) a bit difficult these days.