Exercise 2. Insert the Present Perfect or Past Indefinite.

Exercise 1. Insert the Past Indefinite or Past Continuous.

1. She heard him sigh while he __ (to read) (Collins) 2. While the water __, Ma Parker began sweeping the floor, (to heat) (Mansfield) 3. While he __ the tea she __ him. (to make, to watch) (Abrahams) 4. Mrs. Presty __ at him with some anxiety on her daughter's account, while he __ the message on Randal's card, (to look, to read) (Collins) 5. It was quite late at night, and the brother __ aloud while the sister __, her needle, when they were interrupted by a knocking at the door, (to read, to ply) (Dickens) 6. While Mrs. Calligan __ the table Mamie went to her room and Aileen followed her. (to set) (Dreiser) 7. While the doctor __, Mrs. Presty __ her own conclusions from a close scrutiny of Mr. Sarrazin's face, (to speak, to draw) (Collins) 8. While he __ he __ the doorbell, then voices, (to wash, to hear) (Abrahams) 9. While the gendarmes __ the room, Arthur __ waiting on the edge of the bed. (to ransack, to sit) (Voynich)

Exercise 2. Insert the Present Perfect or Past Indefinite.

1. You __ never __ me why you're called Tony when your name is James, (to tell) (Galsworthy) 2. 1 __ her name in the papers rather often of late, (to see) (Maugham) 3. "The rain __, carino," Montanelli said after sunset. "Come out; I want to have a talk with you." (to stop) (Voynich) 4. " __ you __ a job?" "There are none." (to find) (Galsworthy) 5. " __ you __ all the necessary preparations incident to Miss Sedley's departure, Miss Jemima?" asked Miss Pinkerton. (to complete) (Thackeray) 6. His father __ just a week ago to-day, (to die) (Galsworthy) 7. I know where you the morning, (to spend) (Austen) 8. Gh! You __. someone with you. Introduce me. (to bring) (Shaw) 9. Barbara! You __ the education of a lady. Please, let your father see that and don't talk like a street girl, (to have) (Shaw) 10. ""Let's go," said Abra- niovici; "I __ my appetite." (to lose) (Heym) 11. "Oh — oh —you are Mary Gerrard?... You __ I — I wouldn't have recognized you." (to change) (Christie) 12. "Where's the paper?" asked Edward. «I __ the leading article yet." (to read — negative) (Maugham) 13. Montanelli __ awake the whole night through, (to lie) (Voynich) 14. Mr. Worthing, I suppose, __ from London yet? (to return — negative) (Wilde) 15. It's the most tasteless, repulsive idea I __ ever __ of (to hear). (Murdoch and Priestley) 16. Mother, I __ just __ to him. (to write) (Wilde) 17. My hands are all wet with these roses. Aren't they lovely? They __ up from Selley this morning. (to come) (Wilde) 18. Young Mako __ a match, __ his pipe, and __ them slowly, (to strike, to light, to approach) (Abrahams) 19. In fact I __ just __ a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again, (to have) (Wilde) 20. You __ even __ at that book I got you on the war in the Pacific, (to look — negative). (Murdoch) 21. When __ you first __ the co-respondent...? (to see) (Galsworthy) 22. We __ in silence for a few minutes. He __ at last, (to sit, to speak) (Dickens) 23. "I __ so little experience yet," she said. "I only __ school yesterday, you see." (to have, to leave) (Beresford) 24. "I __ surely __ very long," returned Florence. "When __ I __ here? Yesterday?" (to sleep, to come) (Dickens) 25. I __ Ann at her father's house twenty odd years ago and __ her ever since, (to meet, to know) (Stone)

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