Exercise 9. Insert the Present Indefinite, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, or Present Perfect Continuous.

1. I (to ring) the bell for the last quarter of an hour. (Maugham)

2. I want to see how much he (to change) since I saw him last. (Voynich)

3. you (to have) any word from her since she left here? (Dickens)

4. I don't want to take a cure at all. I am perfectly happy. All my life I (to be) perfectly happy. (Hemingway)

5. Signora Grassini greeted Gemma affectionately, exclaiming in a loud whisper: "How charming you (to look) tonight!" (Voynich)

6. Here's my keys. I (to leave). (Gow and D’Usseau)

7. I (not to speak) to Mr. Boldwood since the autumn. I want to explain. I (to long) to do it ever since I returned. (Hardy)

8. I requested them to suspend their decision until they (to read) my narrative. (Collins)

9. Wait till you (to see) Moose and (to talk) with him. (Aldridge)

10. "But what we (to do)?" she asked. "I (to think) about it a lot. I (to think) about it all week. But I (not to know) what to do." (Caldwell)

11. I must not let my eyes get all red and swollen, or Henry will know I (to cry). (Maugham)

12. The sun (to shine) with different degrees of heating power in different parts of the world.

13. "Look," I said, "I (to know) Francis very well. I (to know) him since we were very young men." (Snow)

14. "Well, I (to hear) that Iris isn't going to be married," I said after a while. (Maugham)

15. He says he (to listen) to the same tunes for fifteen years. (Maugham)

16. Cesare you and I (to be) friends for all these years, and I never (to tell) you what really happened about Arthur. (Voynich)

17. What are we going to say to the king when he (to come in)? (Shaw)

18. "Dear little Hans," cried the Miller, "I am in great trouble. My little boy (to fall) off a ladder and (to hurt) himself." (Wilde)

19. "As I (to tell) you for the past six months," he said, "business is bad." (B. Shaw)

20. "This other gentleman," cried Mr. Pickwick, "is, as you will see when you (to read) the letter... a very near relative, or I should rather say a very particular friend of your son's." (Dickens)

21. Maude: You both (to look) forward to this moment ever since you met one another. Caroline: And now it (to come). (Maugham)

22. But you ought to have been telling your tale. Now you begin and when you (to finish), we'll go back and see what really (to happen). (Priestley)

23. What you (to do) with yourself since I've been away? (Christie)

24. You (to be) here two weeks. you (to change) your opinion of the South? (Gow and D’Usseau)

25. "I am very hungry and tired," replied Oliver. "I (to walk) a long way. I (to walk) these seven days." (Dickens)

26. My good man, Signora Bolla (to be) head nurse in general to all of us. She (to look after) sick people ever since she was in short frocks, and (to do) it better than any sister of mercy I (to know) I needn't leave any directions if she (to come) (Voynich)

27. As Arthur mounted the stone steps leading to the street, a girl in a cotton dress and straw hat ran up to him with outstretched hands. "Arthur! Oh, I am so glad! I (to wait) here for half an hour... Arthur, why you (to look) at me like that? Something (to happen). Arthur, what (to come) to you? Stop!" (Voynich)

28. "Mr. Bithem here yet?" asked Miss Mass. "Oh, yes, dear," cried the chorus. "He (to be) here for ages. We all (to wait) here for more than an hour." (to be, to wait) (Mansfield)

29. "Are we alone now?" "The waiter (to go) and the door is locked." (Caldwell)

30. I (to be) happy. I always (to be) happy. (Hemingway)