Практикум по грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие

Exercise 29. Write complete sentences. Use Present Perfect Simple and 
Past Simple.
Example: You/be/tired/all day. What time/you/go to bed/last night?
You’ve been tired all day. What time did you go to bed last night?
1. Monica/never/meet/her grandfather. He/die/in 1967.
2. I/buy/a new tie/last week, but I/not/wear/it/yet.
3. He/already/see/that film. He/see/it/when/he/be/in London.
4. I/just/have/my lunch. I/finish eating/ten minutes ago.
5. I/never/play/tennis/in my life, but I/play/badminton/when/I/be/at school.
6. I/make/six mistakes/so far/today. Yesterday/I/only/make/two mistakes/ al-
together.
7. Jack/live/in Greece/for the last three years. He/live/in Africa/before/he/go/
to Greece.
8. Greg is going to sell his car. He/only/buy/it/last month. He loves changing 
cars. He/have/at least/10 cars/in his life.
9. —you/speak/to him?
—Yes. I/speak/to him/before/the party.
10. It/not/stop raining/since/Saturday.
11. Brasilia/be/the capital of Brazil/since 1960. Before 1960, Rio de Janeiro/
be/the capital.
12. I/not/see/the new manager/yet. When/she/start working/for the company?
13. Paula and Laurence/be married/since last year. They/meet/at university.
14. I/break/my arm/a week ago. I/not/use/a computer/for my work/since then.

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Exercise 30. Put the verbs in brackets into Present Perfect Simple or 
Past Simple. If two answers are possible, write the more likely one.
A. Helen Parker is one of the most interesting people I ______________ 
(meet): she is only twenty-seven, but she ______________ (travel) to over 
thirty different countries. Five years ago, she ______________a secretary in 
Birmingham, but she ______________ (decide) to give up her job and see the 
world. Since then, her life ______________ (change) completely.
The first time she ______________ (go) abroad was seven years ago, when 
she ______________ (be) just twenty. She ______________ (take) a boat to 
France and then ______________ (hitch-hike) around Europe for six weeks. 
She ______________(visit) Europe many times since that first trip, of course, 
but this holiday ______________ (be) the one which ______________ (make) 
her start travelling. She ______________ (never forget) the excitement of 
those six weeks, although it ______________ (be) not all enjoyable. When 
she ______________ (be) on a train, somebody ______________ (steal) her 
purse: she ______________ (lose) all her money, and ______________ (have) 
to work in a restaurant for a fortnight. She______________ (make) some good 
friends there, however, and ______________ (return) several times since then.
B. Twenty years ago few people ______________ (realise) that comput-
ers were about to become part of our daily lives. This short period of time 
______________ (see) enormous changes, in business, education, and public 
administration. Jobs ______________ (take) weeks to complete in the past 
and clerks ______________ (spend) all day to copy and check calcula tions. 
In offices, the soft hum and clicking of word processors ______________ (re-
place) the clatter of typewriters. Schoolchildren ______________ (become) as 
familiar with hardware and
software as their parents ______________ (be) with pencils and exercise 
books. Computerization of public records ______________ (enable) govern-
ment departments to analyze the needs of citizens in detail. Some of us may 
wonder, however, whether life ______________ (really/improve) as a result 
of these changes. Many jobs ______________ (disappear), for example, when 
intelligent machines ______________ (take) over the work. Employers com-
plain that clerical staff ______________ ____(become) dependent on calcu-
lators and cannot do simple arithmetic. Certainly, many people may now be 
wondering whether the spread of computers ______________ (bring) us as 
many problems as it ______________ (solve).

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