Present Tenses
Create the sentence using the correct tense:
River Plate / flow / the / Atlantic / into / ocean /the
The River Plate flows into the Atlantic Ocean
Decide whether the verb in italics is correct or incorrect
While I had a bath, someone knocked on the door.
Wrong
Complete the sentence:
This building ______ (not be) here in a thousand years.
won't be
Complete the sentence:
I can't imagine what I ______ (do) with the money If I _____ (win) the lottery.
would do / won
Ability
Complete the following sentence:
I'd like to _______ swim.
be able to
Conjugate the verb taking into account the context:
At the moment, he ___________ (study) to be a lawyer.
He is studying to be a lawyer
Decide whether the verb in italics is correct or incorrect
I didn't know you had bought a car
correct
Complete the following sentence:
Don't be late. We _____ (wait) outside the cinema.
will be waiting
Complete the sentence so that it has a similar meaning:
I'll call the police if you don't leave me alone.
Unless___________________
you leave me alone, I will call the police.
Uncertainty and possibility:
I _____ see you later If I finish my work, but don't count on it.
might
Conjugate the verb taking into account the context:
Whenever I see David he ________ (smoke)
He is smoking
Choose the correct option:
Tanya used to / would be a doctor
used to
Complete the sentence:
Hurry up! By the time we get there, the film _______ (start)
will have started
Complete the sentence so that it has a similar meaning:
If you hadn't told me about Sue's hair, I wouldn't have noticed.
Unless_______________
you had told me about Sue's hair, I wouldn't have noticed.
Complete the sentence:
Mary _________ (take) a later train (meaning: perhaps she did)
might have taken
Explain the difference between these two sentences:
Tom has lived here for two years.
Tom had lived here for two years.
Tenses + one has a result in the present, whereas the other one may imply that Tom is dead or he does not live there anymore.
I ___ (phone) you last night but you _____ (not answer). What ______ (you do)?
phoned / didn't answer / were you doing
Complete the sentence:
Sorry, I can't help you, I _____ (leave) in the morning.
am leaving
Complete the sentence so that it has a similar meaning:
I wouldn't accept if you asked me to marry you!
If you were________________
to ask me to marry you, I wouldn't accept.
Complete the sentence:
You __________ (tell) me to do it. (meaning: you told me to do it and it was a mistake)
Choose the correct option:
From the minute he got up this morning, Gary asked/ has asked / has been asking silly questions!
has been asking
Complete the following sentences with present tenses
Tony ____(admit) that he ____ (hit) the other car, but said that he _____ (not damage) it.
admitted / had hit / hadn't damaged
Complete the sentence:
If we don't get here by 6 p.m., Jack ______ (leave)
will have left.
Complete the sentence so that it has a similar meaning:
If you see Peter, tell him to be here at 8:00.
Should ________________
should you see Peter, tell him to be here at 8:00.
Can you explain the difference between these two sentences?
You must start working harder!
You have to turn left here.
Must vs. Have to