The document provides examples of verb tenses including simple, perfect, continuous, and perfect continuous. It also discusses the future perfect tense and how it refers to actions that will be completed at a definite time in the future. Examples are given to illustrate the use of the future perfect tense along with adverbs of duration and time. The document concludes with exercises testing understanding of verb tenses.

2. HOMEWORK EXERCISE
1. I ………………………………………(see) my first baseball game when I ……………………………………(live) in New
York.
2. How many pints of beer ……………………………………(he/drink) before he ………………………………….(leave) the
pub?
3. It ………………………………………………..(rain) so we ………………………………….(decide) to stay at home all
afternoon.
4. By the time I ……………………………………………..(leave) university I ……………………………….(be) to france fifteen
times.
5. What ………………………………………………..(you/do) at the time the murder was committed?
6. When we ……………………(get) home we saw that someone ………………………..(break) in to steal the DVD recorder.
7. He ………………………………..(send) to prison four times before he …………………………………..(decide) that it would
be better to go straight.
8. I didn't realize I ……………………(lose) my credit cards until I ………………………..(try) to pay for dinner at the
restaurant.
9. I …………………………………(write) an email to my sister when she ………………………….(ring) me.
10. She was so upset by the news that she ……………………………(drop) her tea and………………………………(start)
crying.

3. PAST – PRESENT - FUTURE
• SIMPLE
• PERFECT
• CONTINUOUS
• PERFECT CONTINUOUS

28. FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
• FUTURE PERFECT TENSE REFERS TO ACTIONS OR SITUATIONS WHICH WILL BE
COMPLETED IN A DEFINITE TIME IN THE FUTURE.
• THE WORDS 'ALREADY' AND 'JUST' REFER TO ACTIONS OR SITUATIONS WHICH
WILL BE FINISHED BY AN APPROXIMATE TIME IN THE FUTURE.
• WE ALSO USE THEM TO WANT TO REFER TO THE DURATION OF AN ACTION OR
EVENT AT A DEFINITE TIME IN THE FUTURE.
• WE USUALLY USE ADVERBS OF DURATION AND TIME TO STATE HOW LONG THE
ACTION WILL LAST AND WHEN IT WILL TAKE PLACE.

29. FUTURE
PERFECT
TENSE
•THE MECHANIC WILL HAVE SERVICED THE
CAR BY WEDNESDAY.
•BY NEXT WEEK CARL WILL HAVE ALREADY
NEGOTIATED THE PRICE OF THE HOUSE.
•SHE WILL HAVE BEEN STUDYING IN GLASGOW
FOR THREE YEARS NEXT SEPTEMBER.

41. Continuous
Continuous

43. TASK 1:
A) They (have broken/will have broken) the hostel rules by not informing the manager about
the window that they broke yesterday.
B) By three o'clock we (were waiting/will have been waiting) for more than an hour for our
school bus.
D) Angie (had criticised/criticised) the organisation for months before she saw any real change.
E) My clothes look dirty and grim. I (have been polishing/have polished) the car all afternoon.
G) Vicky is not home. She (had just gone/has just gone) to the salon to get a manicure.

44. TASK 2:
•Correct the following sentences and re-write them:
1. It is raining for two days.
2. The baby is sleeping for three hours now.
4.He has returned from london last week.
5. See that you will not do any damage.

45. TASK 3

46. TASK 3

49. ANSWERS

50. ANSWERS OF TASK 1
A) they (have broken/will have broken) the hostel rules by not informing the
manager about the window that they broke yesterday.
B) by three o'clock we (were waiting/will have been waiting) for more than an
hour for our school bus.
D) angie (had criticised/criticised) the organisation for months before she
saw any real change.
E) my clothes look dirty and grim. I (have been polishing/have polished) the
car all afternoon.
G) vicky is not home. She (had just gone/has just gone) to the salon to get a
manicure.

51. ANSWERS OF TASK 2
1. It is raining for two days.
Correct: it has been raining for two days.
2. The baby is sleeping for three hours now.
Correct: the baby has been sleeping for three hours now.
Here the error lies in using the present continuous instead of the present perfect continuous. We use the present
perfect continuous tense to talk about an action which started in the past, has gone on till the present and is still
continuing.
4.He has returned from london last week.
Correct: he returned from london last week.
Here the error lies in using the present perfect tense instead of the simple past tense. The present perfect is a
present tense. It can’t be used with adverbs of past time.
5. See that you will not do any damage.
Correct: see that you do not do any damage.
It is wrong to use the future tense in the subordinate clause when the verb in the main clause is in the imperative
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52. ANSWERS OF TASK 3