Mastering English Verb Tenses: A Comprehensive Practice

Mastering English Verb Tenses

• We had never met them before the party yesterday.
• While the reporters were interviewing the policeman, the robber escaped.
• She has been very quiet since her husband died.
• You must keep awake until the last visitor leaves.
• If you need to contact me sometime next week, I will be staying at the Sheraton in San Francisco.
• By the end of the year, she will graduate in economics.
• The girl who is standing near the tree is my sister.
• He has never won an Oscar.
• I had just got home when I heard the news.
• If I had lots of money, I could travel more often.
• I wouldn't go to school by bus every day if I had a driving license.
• Tonight we are staying at home. I've rented a video.
• I won't tell anyone, but if I did, you would be the first to know.
• The first computers, from the early 1980s, were simple machines designed for basic tasks. They didn't have much memory, they weren't very powerful and customers had to pay thousands of dollars for appliances which actually didn't do very much. Since then technology has evolved a great deal. Computers have become powerful machines with a large selection of useful programs. They are much faster and allow interactive communication online.
• If he had not broken up with his girlfriend, he wouldn't be so lonely now.
• When I got to the party last Saturday, Sue and Frank were discussing something controversial, and Mary was complaining about something unimportant. They are always the same, so predictable.
• Don't worry about your arrival, when you get off the plane, I will be waiting for you.
• If I were stronger, I would help you carry the piano.
• If you are not careful with those champagne glasses, they will break easily.
• I didn't come to class last week because I was ill.
• He has been working / has worked for this company for more than thirty years, and he intends to stay here until he retires.
• I'm afraid I had completely forgotten about it. But give me a moment. I will do it now.
• In 2002 people will buy more hybrid cars.
• We are going to fly / are flying to Venice in June.

A Trekking Journal

10.30 p.m. November 12, 1997:

• Tomorrow will be the second day of my trek around Mount Annapurna. I am exhausted and my legs are shaking; I just hope I am able to complete the trek. My feet are really killing me and my toes are bleeding but I still want to continue.