tailieunhanh - Grammar Practice fof Intermediate Studens_2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'grammar practice fof intermediate studens_2', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | For more material and information please visit Verbs 6 When I find my purse someone take the money out of it. 7 The car go when I look into the street. 8 The patient already die by the time I see her. 9 All the garages close by the time we cross the border. 10 You already leave when the trouble start 11 The post not arrive when I leave the house this morning. 12 By the time I get into town the shops close . 18 Past Perfect Continuous FORM had d been verb-ing USE As present perfect continuous but changed because it occurs in a past narrative She s been working all night. When I got there she had been working all night. They ve been living there for years. They didn t like the house even though they had been living there for years. She s been reading for hours. There were books everywhere she had been reading for hours. 21 Verbs For more material and information please visit Practice This is part of a newspaper story written in 1990. Rewrite it in your notebook putting the verbs into the past perfect or past simple. Start your story with the words 1999 Mr and Mrs Charlton had been living in Portland Street for . Mr and Mrs Charlton have been living in Portland street for five years. They have tried to move several times but this has not been possible as they are unable to sell their house. Several people have looked at the property but quickly lost interest - and the reason for this is obvious. For three years the garden of 17 Portland Street has been covered by three feet of water. The Charltons tried to find the reason for this strange occurrence but no one has been able to help. The water level has been rising since 1996 and has damaged the whole of the ground floor. The Charltons have been keeping the water back with sandbags but of course this is only a temporary defence. Mrs Charlton says she has contacted the water authorities the town council even her local MP but no one has been able to explain why their back garden