Abdelmalek Essaâdi University Grammar I resit Exam

Faculty of Letters and Humanities February 2019

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.

1. A: Hello, Mark. You (take) ____took_______________ a long time to open the door.
B: Sorry. I (not hear) ______didn’t hear________________ the bell. Come in, Tony.
A: What (plan) ______are (were) you planning _______ to do today?
B: I (think) _________was thinking_____________ of going for a picnic in the country, but
the weather is awful, so I (change) _______ changed____________ my mind.
A: Oh dear. Well, yesterday Mary (tell) ____told me that she (buy) ____had bought two
tickets to see the Rolling Stones, but she couldn’t go to the concert. So I (buy) _________ the
tickets from her because I (guess) _____guessed_______________ you would like to go.
B: Tony, that’s brilliant! I (mean) _____meant___________________ to buy tickets for that
concert but they (sell out) ____had sold________________ out by the time I (go)
____went____________ to the booking office.
A: Well, it’s lucky I (see) ______saw______________ Mary, isn’t it?

2. Next Saturday, Daisy (fly) __is flying/ is going to fly____________________ to Paris for
a business meeting. Her secretary (already book) has already booked_______ the flight. The
plane (leave) leaves at nine o’clock in the morning and one of her business clients (meet)
______will be meeting______________ her at the airport when the plane (land)
_________lands________. She doesn’t know how long the meeting will last, but she (return)
_____will have returned____________________ home by Thursday evening.

3. Kate Teale has decided to open her own restaurant. Yesterday, she (have) __had____ a
meeting with her bank manager and she (ask) ____asked_______ him for a loan. He agreed,
so Kate (be able) is going to be able/ will be able to start making plans. In fact, she (already
find) ___has already found____________ a nice building for her restaurant and she (look)
_____is going to look____________________ at tables and chairs next week. By the end of
the month, work in the restaurant (begin) _____will have begun____________________ and
by the summer, everything will be ready. Kate (hope) ___hopes/ is hoping______________
her restaurant will be a success. Presently, she (interview) is interviewing people to be chefs
and waiters.

4. My friends Aki and Bob _______are_________ (be) very lucky. Right now, they are lying
(lie) on a beach on Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Their flight ______takes off ____________
(take off) from Montreal airport at the beginning of the month. This means that they
_____have been_______ (be) away for over two weeks now. They don’t spend (not spend)
much money when they travel, which is fortunate, since neither of them has (have) much
money. They are both students. Yet they ___have been_____ (be) to many places around the
world. This time, I really __wanted____ (want) to join them, but by the time I __made up
(make up) my mind, they had already set off (already/ set off) for Mexico.
5. Dear Mr Jackson,
My family and I (suffer) ___have been suffering a good deal lately from the noise made by
your guests when they (leave) leave your house on Saturday nights. They (stand) stand in the
street, laughing loudly and calling goodbye to you and to each other. Then they (get) get into
their cars, (bang) __bang_________ the doors loudly, and finally they (reverse)
_______reverse____________ their cars on the road.
This (sound) ______sounds_____________ a fairly simple manoeuvre, but there is always
at least one of your guests who (find) ____finds_________ it almost beyond him - whether
because he (have) _______________ too much to drink or (learn, still) _________________
has had to drive I (not know) don’t know- but I do know that it (take) ___takes_ him ages
to get out, and all the time we hear this engine roaring and his friends shouting advice.
By the time all your guests are gone and the road is quiet again, my family (all / be) ___have
all been_____________________wakened up, and the children often (find) ____find
__________it very hard to get to sleep again. I will be very grateful if you ask your guests to
leave more quietly and perhaps you could persuade any learner drivers to come by taxi.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Meyers
6.

Kim: Hey Bob. Kim here. Guess where I’m calling ___ (call)   you from.  
Bob: No idea. Tell me.
Kim: From a hospital. I had an accident. I ____broke__________ (break) my leg.  
Bob: That's terrible. What ____happened_______________________ (happen)?  
Kim: It was really stupid. I _______was skiing________________ (ski) down this
expert run when I hit a patch of ice and fell on my face.  
Bob: I suppose that, when it happened, you _____were going__ (go) down the hill very
fast.  
Kim: Too fast. That was the problem. And the fact that it was snowing (snow) at the
time didn't help much.  
Bob: Who ____brought___ (bring) you down off the mountain?  
Kim: The ski patrol. Luckily, they were patrolling (patrol) that part of the mountain
when I had my accident.   
Bob: I suppose they __took___ (take)   you straight to the hospital.  
Kim: I wish! Once they got me down the hill, they called the hospital and I waited
(wait) more than an hour and a half for the ambulance to come.  
Bob: Because of the snowstorm, I suppose. So you ____have been_______________
(be) at the hospital since this morning.  
Kim: Yes. The doctor _____has seen__________ (see) me already, but now I have to
wait for the X-ray results.    
Bob: When you ____get_________ (get) the X-ray results, will you be able to come
home?  
Kim: Apparently. These days they only ____keep_________ (keep) people in the
hospital if they are really sick and need a lot of care.    
Bob: Well that's good news. You'll need a lift, so when the doctor
____tells_________(tell) you can leave, call me and I'll pick you up.