1. Choose the right form.
1. Where have you been? Have you played/Have you been playing/Did you play
tennis?
2. He askes if I joined/shall join/would join them tomorrow at the picnic.
3. How many pages of that book have you read/have you been reading?
4. Father’s hands were dirty. He had been repairing/have been repairing/repaired the car.
5. What happened/has happened/had been happening to you last night?
6. Somebody has broken/broke/has been breaking the window when I was out.
3. Choose the sentence (a or b) which means the same as the first
sentence.
1. We had dinner when Father came.
a. Father arrived and then we had dinner.
b. We had dinner and then Father arrived.
2. I read the book after I had seen the fi lm.
a. I saw the fi lm and then I read the book.
b. I read the book and then I saw the fi lm.
3. By the time Ann came home, I had gone to bed.
a. I went to bed before Ann came home.
b. I went to bed after Ann came home.
4. The girls had tidied the fl at when the guests arrived.
a. The guests arrived and then the girls tidied the fl at.
b. The girls tidied the house and then the guests arrived.
5. They carried the luggage downstairs before the taxi came.
a. They carried the luggage downstairs and then the taxi came.
b. The taxi came and then they carried the luggage downstairs.