English Grammar with Kudjo. Понятная и забавная грамматика для детей и взрослых. Part 2 - страница 8

his favourite meat muffins.

4 After they /travel/ for several hours, they met a strange creature.

5 They /sleep/ for an hour when someone knocked on the door.

6 /walk / they for a long time before they got lost?

7 It /snow/ all night and they couldn’t open the front door in the morning because of snow.

8 Dradjo was coal black after he /clean/ the chimney.

EXERCISE 2

Find the proper verb and put it into the correct the Past Perfect Continuous form: wait, jog, not garden, plan, cook, not walk, swim, watch.

1 They ***** this trip for ages, so nothing went wrong.

2 Kudjo ***** in a bog for some time when suddenly something caught his leg under the water.

3 They ***** for an hour when their guests finally came.

4 They ***** for long when they stopped for a bite.

5 Kudjo ***** in the park for some minutes when he saw a whimpering puppy.

6 They ***** for several hours before dinner was ready.

7 How long ***** they ***** a cartoon before the lights went off?

8 They ***** for long when it started to rain.

EXERCISE 3

Find and correct mistakes in 7 sentences:

1 His knees and hands were very dirty. He had crawled in the garden.

2 They were out of breath. They were chasing rats.

3 Kudjo had pretending to sleep until Dradjo stopped talking and fell asleep.

4 They have been fighting since lunch and neither wanted to make up first.

5 They had living in the country for a year before they decided to move to the city.

6 How long had you be following that sheep-dog yesterday?

7 Had they been played for a long time before the bulldog joined them?

8 They had been trying to behave themselves until the Doberman beauty went home.

Past Perfect Continuous is the past equivalent of Present Perfect Continuous and has the same functions but in the past.It shows actions of a certain duration that had visible results in the past. Compare:

Kudjo is starving. He hasn’t been eating long.

Kudjo was starving. He hadn’t been eating long.

EXERCISE 4

Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Perfect Continuous or Present Perfect Continuous Tenses:

1 Kudjo has a backache. He /dig/ in the garden.

2 Kudjo was angry with his pet because Dradjo /eat/ his treats.

3 He is tired. He /tidy/ the house.

4 They look exhausted. They /chase/ the neighbour’s cats.

5 They /wait/ for hours before a cat got into their garden.