H4 - tenses overview + extensive exercise

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H4 - Tenses

present simple

do / does

feit:  The maximum speed on motorways in The Netherlands is 100kph.

gewoonte: He usually goes to work by bike.

volgens schema: The train leaves at 18.09 from platform 3.

in voorwaardelijke bijzin (0) : If you add some sugar to this fruitjuice it becomes much sweeter. 

present continuous

am / is/ are + verb + -ing

aan de gang: Do not disturb dad; he is taking a nap.

tijdelijke situatie: Because our house is being renovated we are living in a caravan.

vastliggend plan voor de toekomst: I am having my teeth checked this afternoon.

in ontwikkeling: The situation is becoming more dangerous every day.

The stranded tourists ... (stay) in hotels.

1. stay
2. are staying

The flight to New York..... (leave) from gate 4D.

1. leaves
2. is leaving

I usually ..... (take) the 5.03 train from platform 3 but today it ..... (leave) from platform 9.

1. take - leaves
2. take-is leaving
3. is taking- is leaving
4. is taking - leaves

present perfect

has / have + voltooid deelwoord

als iets in het verleden gebeurd is en het is nog niet voorbij: I have worked for Jumbo for a year.

als iets in het verleden gebeurd is en het resultaat is nog merkbaar of belangrijk: She has broken her ankle. She cannot walk without crutches

als iets net voorbij is: I have just heard it.

My friend ... (buy) a new house and he ...(move) in on Thursday.

1. has bought - moves
2. is buying - has moved
3. buys - is moving
4. has bought - is moving

... you ever ... (see) a cuter doll than this one?

1. do see
2. have seen
3. are seeing

past simple

     did

als iets in het verleden begonnen en gestopt is: I read that book. I worked as a shop assistant.

als het op een bepaald moment in het verleden is gebeurd: I read that book last year.

als iets regelmatig gebeurde in het verleden: I I read a book a week when I was at a university.

past continuos

was / were + verb + -ing

wanneer iets in het verleden langer heeft geduurd dan iets anders: When John came home his children were having a party.

wanneer iets in het verleden tijdelijk was: When my parents were on holiday my grandparents were looking after us.

past perfect

had + voltooid deelwoord

als iets eerder gebeurde in het verleden dan iets anders: 

After he had cut his finger, he called 112.

Before entering the cinema they had sanitized their hands.

His brother .... (lose) his keys when he ... ( ski).

1. lost - was skiing
2. had lost - skied
3. was losing - had skied
4. lost - skied

Kitty ... (build) a shed when it ... (start) to rain.

1. built - started
2. was building - started
3. built - had started
4. was building - had started

tense	active
present simple	I jump
present continuous	I am jumping
present perfect	I have jumped
past simple	I jumped
past continuous	I was jumping
past perfect	I had jumped

Fill in the right tense

The new Netflix series The Crown ….. (1. chronicle) the early years of QueenElizabeth II’s long reign. Much of the first season …..(2. examine) how Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne impacted her relationship with her husband, Prince Philip, who is alternately supportive of the young monarch (she ….. (3. crown) at 25) and resentful.  Early on, he ….. (4. tell) by aides that he must walk behind her, and the English government ……(5. refuse) to allow the couple to give the children Philip’s name. Biographers …..(6. write) that Philip chafed under these guidelines, perceiving them as a challenge to his manhood. 

But a 1957 cover story in TIME, written on the occasion of the queen’s first visit to the United States since her coronation, ……(7. credit) Philip with modernizing the royal family and connecting with the common people of England.

In the increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain’s monarchy …..(8. find) itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household whose members …..(9. see) only other aristocrats and ……(10. seem) chiefly concerned with horse racing or – shooting grouse. But today, Britain’s throne ….. (11. never be) more secure, nor its occupant more firmly rooted in her subjects’ affections. The man chiefly responsible for building this new bridge of sympathy and understanding between throne and subject is the vigorous, handsome man Elizabeth married ten years ago. While Elizabeth ……(12. grow up) surrounded by the royal family and private tutors, Philip was “a relatively impoverished princeling, reared as a commoner, ……( 13. wash) dishes, fired boilers, even played on a skittles team organized by the owner of a local pub.” He is the nephew of King Constantine of Greece and a descendent of Queen Victoria, but when he was just a year old, his father ……(14. condemn) to exile. Philip never even ……(15. learn) Greek. 

Answers

1. chronicles                                                          11.  has never been
2. examines                                                           12. grew up
3. was crowned                                                    13. has washed
4. is told                                                                   14. was condemned
5. refuses                                                                15. learned
6. have written                                                      
7. credits                                                                
8. found                                                                  
9. saw                                                                       
10. seemed