... TENSES T 17 Sir Guy Loonaby-Smith, the famous explorer, is being interviewed on TV about his exciting life Complete the dialogue and fill inthe correct tenses! Interviewer Sir Guy, you have spent ... spent (spend) the last sixty years exploring the world When did you first become (you first become) interested in travelling? Sir Guy Well, I can tell you the exact day I was (be) eleven years old ... interesting countries inthe world Have you ever had (you, ever, have) any frightening experiences? Sir Guy Oh yes, lot s of them Interviewer Which was (be) your most frightening? Sir Guy Perhaps...
... 19.Bewley 's Clipper Gold Tea and Espresso Prima (win) Gold Awards inthe London Great Taste Awards 20.You must not always _ so much noise while we are studying A.are making B.be making C be ... making Answer: 1 .is 2.began ,imported 3.does not look , was , had dared put , had forced 5.became 6.imported 7.liked 8.noticed , bought 9.had developed 10 wanted , had been m 11.began 12.baked ... 11.began 12.baked , found out , was 13.marked 14.opened , had spent 15.provide 16.had to restrict , switched 17 .is 18.has created , has opened 19.have won 20.be making ...
... English Banana.com Test Your Grammar Skills The Funny Noise – Irregular Verbs inthePastSimple Tense (gap-fill) Answers: Dear Ethel I’m writing to tell you about something that happened yesterday ... noise again I held my breath and opened the door slowly Guess what? I found the llama hiding in my cupboard! I let him stay and he slept in my garden last night The snoring was so loud! This ... knew that the constable would be angry with me for wasting his time, so I ran out of the police station while he was still on the phone I went home to try to find out what the noise was On the way...
... last holidays? (you spend) He has just thrown a glass on the floor (just throw) Inthepast two years she has become a very nice person (become) The exercise book costs 17 € (cost) The used to ... has broken four windows since she was born (break) Jim had never driven the car until he was 18 (drive) The sun shone the whole day yesterday (shine) She has lost her keys She has been looking ... before yesterday (drive) I think my nephew has grown six centimeters since last summer (grow) The Titanic sank in less than six hours (sink) Hurry up! The symphony has already begun (already,begin)...
... [44] In sum, some English linguists point out the syntactic characteristics of SVs in general and find out how to use these verbs inthe sentence The Vietnamese linguists and researchers indicate ... by studying these verbs in order to help learners of English use them effectively in their speaking and writing For the above reasons, I wish to carry out the thesis entitled “A Study of the Linguistic ... and semantic features The analysis results of the ESVs and VSVs will be compared and contrasted in order to find out the similarities and differences between them The analysis results of ESVs and...
... it is called supporting verb Because main verb can not combine directly with negative words or question words so is used to support main verb Besides, it is also used to replace another verbto ... English and full forms are popular in written English Do is supporting auxiliary, it is used: to form negatives, interrogatives in clauses insimple present and simple past; to emphasize in declarative ... meaning for the main verbs but they are used to distinguish tenses and kinds of sentences When these verbs stand alone, they are full verbs When we use HAVE, DO, BE as auxiliary verbs, after them,...
... from the publisher Engineering Mechanics - Statics Chapter Problem 2-28 The beam isto be hoisted using two chains If the resultant force isto be F, directed along the positive y axis, determine ... reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher Engineering Mechanics - Statics Chapter Problem 2-26 The boat isto be pulled onto the shore using two ropes ... from the publisher Engineering Mechanics - Statics Chapter Problem 2-27 The beam isto be hoisted using two chains Determine the magnitudes of forces FA and FB acting on each chain in order to...
... something in) , and thus when box and in are adjacent (except for those rare cases involving heavy NP shift) box is a noun Thus we see that there is a need to distinguish between the cases where the ... assigning a verbal tag tothe whole expression Frequency distributions of these tokens in tile Brown Corpus are presented as well, which reflect why statistical probabilities err in these cases ... verbs When is this alternative needed? Inthe cases where PARTS had 10% or more errors, most of the verbs occur lnuch more often as nouns or adjectives This confirms my hypothesis that PARTS will...
... points are fully specified, this analysis allows the main event to be inthepast even though the sentence itself isinthe future perfect (5) exists X Start End Progressive Perfect holds(frost(john, ... from simplepast sentences in that it isthe progressive time and not theending time of the main event that is required to be inthepast Consequently, as in H&~C, the interpretation of a past ... time of the main verb Further, the during time is useful inthe interpretation of several sentence types: progressivss, statives, and sentences containing relative clauses Finally, an analysis that...
... Accordingto our rules, therefore, the tense that is chosen for to arrive isthesimplepast while to talk has to be conjugated into thepast continuous The last thing that needs to be done at this ... directly established the correct tenses, accordingtothe systemic theory the tense determination process is iterative In other words, the first tense is determined by choosing past for the primary ... time is past, THEN set the primary tense topast This chooser is very similar tothe naive tense selection rule utilized to establish that a given verb should be conjugated into thesimple past: ...
... approximates that of the NS in terms of patterns (in line with Hunston and Francis 1999) Chapter Nine summarises the findings of the research chapters and discusses the advances this research has made in ... acquisition (SLA) studies, it uses the methods and tools of corpus linguistics to gain better insights into authentic leaner language”, as Granger summarises (1998a: xxi) Since EA is considered to ... versus the qualitative approach in corpus linguistics) 1.7 Two assumptions behind this research In this thesis it is assumed, as is usual in this newly-born field of learner language study, that the...
... associated to this data structure for the selections of translation equivalents is ideoms or ideom like phrases The association process is similar tothe association process in chapter 0nly the ... structure should be given as the basis of this data structure This categories structure is stable, and will not be changed basically, and is constructed independently from verbs In other words, it is ... parases become large, Therefore, the division of categories must further be done The process of constructing this data structure is as follows (1) Find a pair of verb and associated translation...
... parse trees in order to move the German verbs into the positions corresponding tothe positions of the English verbs Subsequently, the reordered German sentences are translated into English leading ... on the reordered English training data In both systems, the same original German sentences were used We used WMT 2009 dev and test sets to tune and test the systems The baseline system was tuned ... SMT system using verbal POS tags we used POS tags in order to disambiguate the English verbs For example, the English verb said corresponds tothe German participle gesagt, as well as to the...
... was because of his illness (absence) They looked at him in (astonish) She looks when she heard the news (astonish) He is a person (respect) I come here to ask for (advise) She was filled with the ... don’t ask such questions (person) It s quite an game (excite) He is very in my story (interest) His face looks very (please) You can easily find his house because of his construction (distinguish) ... 78 79 She is thinking of English (study) Do you like to solve puzzles? (mathematics) Thetothe problems will be difficult to find (solve) He isthe most pupil in our class (intelligence) The company...
... she ( cry ) V supply the correct verbs form : simplepast or past continuous tense When I (arrive)at her house ,she still ( sleep ) 2.She (water ) the flowers inthe garden while her nextdoor neighbor ... all the trees inthe garden 71 The house ( build ) years ago 73 Listen ! the birth ( sing ) 74 Tom baker ( not come ) here tomorrow 75 By the end of last March I ( study ) English for years ... while the guests ( dance) 83 When I came in , they all ( sit ) round the fire Mr Pike ( ) crossword puzzle , Mrs Pike ( knit ) , and the others ( read ) 84 Mr Jackson ( paint ) his house since...