Exercise 8. Insert the Present Indefinite, Present Continuous, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous.

1. Women constantly (to try) to commit suicide for love, but generally they (to take care) not to succeed. (Maugham)

2. You probably (not to see) her since those summer holidays when Mum and Dad were abroad. (Christie)

3. Gerald, if you (to go away) with Lord Illingworth, go at once. Go before it ( to kill) me: but don't ask me to meet him. (Wilde)

4. There's the car. Arnold (to come back). I must go and bathe my eyes. I don't want them to see I (to cry). (Maugham)

5. I (to see) the other nurse, Nurse O'Brien, today. (Christie)

6. As she turns to go, she finds that Bella (to enter) and (to sit) at her and her father with impassive hatred. (Gow and D’Usseau)

7. Bella is a Negro woman of fifty who (to be) in the Langdon home for twenty-four years and thus (to occupy) a favored position. (Gow and D’Usseau)

8. "You (to be ) very absurd, Laura," she said coldly. (Mansfield)

9. When I (to take off) my things we shall go into the next room and have tea. (Mansfield)

10. I always (to do) things on the spur of the moment to ray own inconvenience and other people's. (Maugham)

11. He has all the virtues. Dr. Ramsay, Miss Glover, even Mrs. Branderton (to drum) his praise into my ears. (Maugham)

12. Fatty came over to Lanny's table. A fat, cheerful Greek with laughing wrinkles at the sides of his eyes. "You're alone to-day," Fatty said. Lanny nodded and lit a cigarette. "I (to leave) tonight." "Leaving?" "Yes, Fatty. I (to go) home to the Karroo." (Abrahams)

13. D'you know that Robert Oldham and Caroline (to be) madly in love with one another for the last ten years? They (to wait) all this time, and now at last Caroline is free. (Maugham)

14. This will be the death of her when she (to hear) it. (Dreiser)

15. You (to tell) my learned friend that you (to know) Mr. Pickwick a long time. (Dickens)

16. He always (to break) the law. (Shaw)

17. "It is Mrs. Sedley's coach, sister," said Miss Jemima. "Sambo, the black servant, just (to ring) the bell." (Thackeray)

18. She (not to like) me... She always (to say) sharp things to me. (Christie)

19. "I think you (to be) very wise. A complete holiday, a complete rest, that is what you need. you (to decide) where you (to go)?" "I (to change) my mind," I said. "I (not to think) I (to go away) after all." (Murdoch)

20. Ah, Miss Marple. Good morning. Glad you (to come). My wife (to ring up) you like a lunatic. (Christie)

21. A woman never acknowledges such a nondescript age as forty-eight unless she (to go) to marry a widower with seventeen children. (Maugham)

22. "By the way, you (to talk) about me. I see it written in your faces. Your silence tells me all. I could even guess what you (to say)..." "You (to listen)," Gladys cried, making a face at him. (Priestley)

23. You (to be) far too romantic about it. (Hilton)

24. "Do you like me at all, Bertha?" he asked. "I (to want) to ask you ever since you came home." (Maugham)

25. Years (to pass) since we began this life. (Dickens)

26. I (to make) some sandwiches. Won't you come up and have some? (Christie)

27. I cannot imagine why I (to live) thirty years with a man I dislike so much. (Maugham)

28. "Antonia (to tell) me about your flat," said Rosemary. "It sounds ideal. And there's a heavenly view over to Westminster Cathedral." (Murdoch)

29. We (to go) to pictures about twice a week ever since. (Maugham)

30. I (to fly) a kite every Saturday afternoon ever since I was a kid and I (to go) to fly a kite as long as ever I (to want) to. (Maugham)

31. I (to know) this is an old story, I (not to understand) it myself and if I (to set down) it in black and white it is only with a faint hope that when I (to write) it I may get a clearer view of if. (Maugham)

32. Who (to come) to tea? (Wilde)

33. "I don't know what's been the matter with me. I (to be) so miserable, Eddie." "You (to cry)." (Maugham)