Exercise 9. Insert predicates in the Present Perfect Simple or in the Past Simple and other missing parts of the sentence using the phrases in brackets.

A..

1. The doctor... today. (to visit ten of his patients)

2. His brother... that day. (not to go to the pictures)

3. It... the day before yesterday. (to rain heavily)

4. The professor... two days ago. (to examine him)

5. He... the other day. (to call on us)

B.

1. The tourists... this week. (to arrive here)

2. Mother... that week. (to take the children to the Zoo)

3. My husband and I... last week. (to be at the theatre)

4. The children... a week ago. (to come from the country)

5. My aunt... for a week. (to stay with us)

C.

1. She... this month. (to take eight lessons in English)

2. They... that month. (to return from England)

3. His elder brother... last month. (to meet them at the pictures)

4. I... a month ago. (to speak to the dean)

5. She... for a month. (not to be in town)

D.

1. Her husband... this year. (to graduate from the Institute)

2. Their friends... that year. (to live in the Crimea)

3. She... last year. (to miss many lessons in French)

4. They... a year ago. (to get acquainted)

5. She... for a year. (to stay in England)

Exercise 10. Use the Present Perfect or the Past Simple tense instead of the infinitives in brackets.

A

1. - 'Where you (to be) since you (to come) to Britain?'

- 'I (to be) to London, Oxford and Brighton.'
- 'When you (to go) to Brighton?'

- 'Yesterday.'

2. - 'How long you (to know) Jack?'

- 'I (to know) him for two years.'

- 'Where you (to see) him first?'

- 'At his sister's wedding.'

3. - 'I just (to have) my first French lesson.'

- 'How it (to go)? You (to enjoy) it?'

- 'Yes, I...'

4. 'Father (to come) back yet?'

- 'Yes. He (to go) straight to his room.'

- 'Oh, I (not to hear) him.'

5. I (to buy) a new car last summer, but I (not to sell) my old car yet, so now I've got two cars.

6. - 'I (not to see) your brother for some time.'

- 'He (to be) ill. He (to collapse) a week ago. He (not to come) back to work yet, but he (to recover) already.'

7. - 'I just (to buy) a copy of The Dangerous Corner. You (to read) it?'

- 'Oh no, I even (not to see) the film.'

8. I can't find my pen. You (to see) it?'

- 'Yes, you (to leave) it in the study. I (to put) it back on your table.'

B.

1. - 'It's just a phase... He'll grow out of it by the time he's fourteen.'

- 'He (to be) in this phase from the age of two.' (G. Durrell)

2. - 'Culture and corruption', echoed Dorian.

- 'I (to know) something of both... I am going to alter. I think I (to alter).'

- 'You (not to tell)- me yet what your good action (to be).' (O. Wilde)

3. - 'I (to ask) a few people out for a week or so', Larry (to say) casually to Mother one morning...

- 'Let the Pension Suisse know...', Mother (to remark).

- 'But I (to invite) them to stay here', Larry (to point out).

- 'Why on earth you (not to tell) me before? There's no room in the villa. How many you (to invite)?' (to ask) Mother.

- 'Oh, just a few... two or three... Let's move to a larger villa...'

- 'But it's absurd, Larry...'

- 'I (to offer) you a perfectly sensible solution.'

- 'We are not moving to another villa', (to say) Mother firmly; 'I (to make up) my mind about that.' (G. Durrell)

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