{"id":784,"date":"2015-08-20T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T16:55:40","slug":"common-mistakes-with-verbs-grammar-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/common-mistakes-with-verbs-grammar-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Common mistakes with verbs | Grammar exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the following sentences using appropriate phrases.<\/p>\n<p>1. He \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 here for 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>a) is standing<br \/>\nb) has been standing<\/p>\n<p>2. No one \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. after his wife died.<\/p>\n<p>a) took care of him<br \/>\nb) cared for him<br \/>\nc) cared about him<\/p>\n<p>3. He \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. to me since the last committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p>a) did not speak<br \/>\nb) has not spoken<br \/>\nc) had not spoken<\/p>\n<p>4. They \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 the problems.<\/p>\n<p>a) discussed about<br \/>\nb) discussed<\/p>\n<p>5. We \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. tennis every day.<\/p>\n<p>a) are playing<br \/>\nb) play<br \/>\nc) have been playing<\/p>\n<p>6. I \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 the test after several attempts.<\/p>\n<p>a) could pass<br \/>\nb) was able to pass<\/p>\n<p>7. Neither of the boys \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. returned.<\/p>\n<p>a) has<br \/>\nb) have<\/p>\n<p>8. The performance of the children \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. excellent.<\/p>\n<p>a) was<br \/>\nb) were<\/p>\n<p>9. Each of the boys \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 punished.<\/p>\n<p>a) was<br \/>\nb) were<\/p>\n<p>10. One of the boys \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>a) has<br \/>\nb) have<br \/>\n<strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. He <strong>has been standing<\/strong> here for 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>2. No one <strong>took care of him<\/strong> after his wife died.<\/p>\n<p>3. He <strong>has not spoken<\/strong> to me since the last committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p>4. They <strong>discussed<\/strong> the problems.<\/p>\n<p>5. We<strong> play<\/strong> tennis every day. (To talk about habitual actions we use the simple present tense.)<\/p>\n<p>6. I <strong>was able to pass<\/strong> the test after several attempts. (To say that we managed to do something on a particular occasion in the past, we use was able to. Could is used to talk about general ability in the past.)<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>Neither of the boys has<\/strong> returned.<\/p>\n<p>8. The performance of the children<strong> was<\/strong> excellent. (Here the subject is the singular noun \u2018performance\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Each of the boys was<\/strong> punished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. One of the boys has<\/strong> gone missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the following sentences using appropriate phrases. 1. He \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 here for 2 hours. a) is standing b) has been standing 2. No one \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. after his wife died. a) took care of him&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-exercises","tag-verbs-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}