Past perfect continuous tense

1. Переделайте предложения из прямой речи в косвенную. Начиная их с указанных слов:

a/ He said…

1. He has been doing this translation for two hours.

2. I think the children have been sleeping too long.

3. It has been raining since last night.

4. I have been practicing piano a lot lately.

5. I’m afraid my guests have been waiting so long.

6. Somebody has been eating from my plate.

7. The rain has been pouring all day.

8. I realize that I have been studying too hard this month.

9. Something has been going wrong with Peter lately.

10. They have been trying to find some way out, but have not achieved any results yet.

b/ He wondered…

1. What have you been reading lately?

2. Has it been snowing here very long?

3. Since what time have you been learning Greek?

4. Have you been reading anything interesting lately?

5. Who has been sleeping in my bed?

6. How long have your relations been staying with you?

7. Why have they been working so hard all these years?

8. Has anything good been happening to you lately?

9. What has Peter been telling you?

2. Раскройте скобки, употребив Past Perfect Continuous Tense:

Example: The two boys came into the house. One had a black eye and the other had a cut lip. (they/fight) They had been fighting.

1. Tom was watching television. He was feeling very tired.

(he/study hard/all day) He ….

2. When I walked into the room, it was empty. But there was a smell of cigarettes.

(somebody/smoke/in the room) Somebody ….

3. When Mary came back from the beach, she looked very red from the sun.

(she/lie in the sun too long) ….

4. The two boys came into the house. They had a football and they were both very tired.

(they/play/football) ….

5. Ann woke up in the middle of the night. She was frightened and she didn’t know where she was.

(she/dream) ….

3. Поставьте глаголы в скобках в Past Perfect или Past Perfect Continuous:

There were four of us – George and Harris and myself and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we (to feel) lately. Harris and George said they often felt so giddy that they couldn’t remember later what they (to do). I said that, with me, it was the liver. I knew that something was wrong with my liver, because I just (to read) about the symptoms by which a man could tell that something (to go) wrong with his liver. I had all those symptoms.

It was a strange thing: after I (to read) something about any illness, I always found that I really had it, that I (to suffer) from it for a long time, or even all my life. I went to the library one day to read about some illness, which I thought I had. Before I (to read) a few words about it I knew that I (to suffer) from it since my childhood. I got interested in my case and began to read the medical book in alphabetical order, and when, at last, I (to come) to the letter Z, I was sure that I had all those diseases, and that some of them I (to have) for a long time already.

Then I tried to feel my pulse. I couldn’t feel any pulse at all until, quite suddenly, it (to start) beating very fast: a hundred and forty seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart: it (to stop) beating. Later I realized that my heart (to be) in its place all the time, and it (to beat), but at that moment I didn’t feel it beating. I tried to look at my tongue with one eye, and I saw only the tip, and it was very red. So I felt quite sure that I had scarlet fever. I (to walk) into the reading-room a happy, healthy man. But after all that I (to read) there, I crawled out a complete wreck.

(after Jerome)

4. Переведите:

1. Когда я позвонил, он сказал, что давно ждёт меня и уже решил уходить.

2. В конце концов она решила покинуть дом, где прожила столько лет и где была так счастлива.

3. Когда мать спросила сына, где он был, он ответил, что играл в футбол с друзьями.

4. Дождь, который лил с утра, прекратился к полудню, но еще дул сильный ветер и небо было покрыто темными тучами.

5. В тот день мы решили пойти на выставку картин, которые привезли из Дрездена. Долгое время о них не было ничего известно, они лежали где-то в подвалах (cellar), пока их не нашли.

6. Вскоре мне пришлось отложить работу, которую я делал до этого, хотя я почти её закончил.

7. В октябре 1917 года Ленин заявил, что революция, о необходимости которой так долго говорили большевики, наконец совершилась.

8. Только вечером они нашли ключ, который искали весь день.

9. Все его спрашивали, но он и сам не мог объяснить, что происходило с ним всё это время, почему он так долго не посещал занятия, где он был, о чём размышлял и т.д.