Англиискии для вас Новый курс XXI века

Exercise 7. Read these sentences and translate them into Russian. Pay attention to the Past Perfect Continuous Tense.
1. John told Nick he had been waiting for him for half an hour. 2. They were very tired as they had been walking since early morning. 3. 1 wondered what he
337 had been doing since last January. 4. She had been sitting for about half an hour when the doctor came in. 5. At that moment the young man who had been writ­ing in his notebook got up and ran out of the room. 6. The Nelsons had been liv­ing in London for ten years before they left for New York. 7. George said he had been boating since four in the afternoon.
Exercise 8. Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

1. 
   We (to drive) for three hours before we came to Coventry. 2. By the time the train arrived they (to wait) already for an hour and a half. 3. He knew where the Browns lived but he never (to be) there. 4. When I first met him he (to lec­ture) at Cambridge University for ten years. 5. It was in Bristol that I first met Peter Black. 1 was fifteen and I just (to come) back from school for the summer holidays. 6. Before Ann came to college she (to study) French for quite a while. 7. She realized that it was now' completely dark and that she (to walk) for a long while. 8. It (to snow) all day when I left home. 9. At lunch Peter told them about New York and what he (to do) there. 10. 1 (to watch TV) for an hour by the time they came.
   

3. The Future Perfect Tense



By the end of the year I shall have worked in the office for ten years.
I’ll be back in two hours. 1 hope you will have finished the translation by then.

В конце года исполнится 10 лет, как я работаю в этом учреждении.
Я вернусь через 2 часа. Надеюсь, что к этому времени вы закончите перевод.


Форма Future Perfect выражает действие, которое уже совершится к определенному моменту в будущем. Этот момент может быть выражен точным указанием времени (by tomorrow, by 2 o’clock) или другим действием в будущем.

1. 
   hope you will have come by the time 1 phone you.
   

They will have answered all the letters by 5 o’clock.