Modul 5: Tenses 120: Set 9: Sentences 81-90

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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81. My brother and his family (visit) us recently.

82. Before we (go) into the pizzeria last weekend, we (eat) 2 ice-creams and a hot dog.

83. I already (tidy up) the house when the buyers came.

84. While my sister (work tomorrow), her husband (paint) the garden gate.

85. Don’t worry. By the time you (arrive) at the restaurant, I (order) the drinks.

86. Before the policeman stopped him, he (run) into a speed trap.

87. Peter (sit) his exam as we speak.

88. The little boy (burst) into a bitter cry when he (realise) he (lose) his favourite toy in the nursery school.

89. I saw the president last week, but I (not see) him ever since.

90. I (eat) fried potatoes at collage many times.