II. Grammar Exercises

Exercise 1. Read this paragraph, translate it. Find verbs in the Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

Mr. Dennis Fowler died last Friday evening in the Highfield Hospital at the age of 58. Mr. Fowler suffered a heart attack at his home three weeks ago after he had been cooking a meal for some guests. According to friends he had been working very hard at his mobile telephone business, which had been losing money.

Exercise 2. Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Perfect Continuous Tense as in the model:

Model: A: I had a terrible backache last week.

B: Oh, dear. What... you (do)? — What had you been doing? A.: I (dig) in the garden. It was in the afternoon on Sunday.

В.: I (not do) it long when I felt pain in my back. It was still aching the next day. When I finally got to see the doctor, I (wait) over an hour. He was late. He (deal) with an emergency. But he was able to help me. It's much better now.

Exercise 3. Add a sentence in the Past Perfect Continuous Tense to explain how accidents happened. Use the words in brackets.

Model: Some children started a house fire. They'd been playing with matches.

1. A man fell off a ladder, (to clean a window)

2. A girl drowned in the lake, (to walk on the ice)

3. A young woman was hit by a car. (to hitch-hike)

4. Two boys were killed by a train, (to play on the railway line)

5. A woman fell down the stairs in the middle of the night, (to walk in her sleep)

6. A man died of an electric shock, (use a faulty electric drill)

Exercise 4. Put in the correct form of the verbs as in the model.

Model: Steve could hear shouts from the flat next door.

his neighbours (to argue) - His neighbours were arguing.

1. Lucy went into the living room. It was empty but the television was still warm. Someone (to watch) it.

2.1 (to play) tennis, so I had to shower. I was annoyed because I (not win) a single game.

3. The walkers finally arrived at their destination. They (to walk) all day, and they needed a rest. They (to walk) thirty miles.

4. When I saw Ben last week, he said he (to stop) smoking. But when I saw him two days later, he (to smoke) a cigarette. He took the cigarette from his mouth and looked rather ashamed.

5. Harry found a note from Graham in Celia's coat. That's how Harry found out they (to have) an affair. In fact they (to see) each other for months. Graham's wife (to know) about it all the time.

Notes to Exercises 1-4:

emergency [i'lmidjansi] аварія; непередбачений випадок

hitch-hike ['hitjhaik] подорожувати автостопом

railway line - залізнична лінія

faulty [^-fo:lti] пошкоджений; несправний

drill - дриль

ladder ['leeda] драбина

drown [draon] тонути; потопати hit - ударити

argue ['a:gju:] сперечатися annoyed [a'rroid] роздратований;

невдоволений destination [,desti'neijn] місце призначення ashamed [s'Jeimd] присоромлений

Exercise 5. Name the parts of speech of the following words, translate them.

Basic, mechanism, obesity, regulating, especial, especially, concentration, immunoreactive, generally, causal, purify, healthy, relationship, genetic.

Exercise 6. Make up sentences; use expressions translating the right column.

		вони провітрили палату.
I want		він закінчив огляд хворих.
We didn't want		їх виписали з лікарні.
She expects	щоб	все було зроблено вчасно.
He wouldn't like		медсестра дала таблетку від головного болю.
I'd like		вона зміряла мені температуру, ми обговорили це питання, нас переривали.