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The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1 - Tense review for the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook with authors Liz Soars, John Soars and Paul Hancock from Oxford University Press

Question

Complete each sentence with a correct form of the verb above, simple or continuous, active or passive, positive or negative.

Answer

  1. What are you thinking? You look depressed.
  2. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I didn't think it would upset you so much.
  3. Tom, I've been thinking / was thinking / 'm thinking / think maybe we should move house. What do you think?
  4. He told me he couldn't give me an answer now. He said he would think / was thinking / was going to think about it.
  5. Hi, Paula! How are you? I haven't seen you for ages.
  6. I can't make the meeting tomorrow - I'm seeing / 'm going to see the doctor for a check-up.
  7. Did you see that? That guy nearly knocked that girl off her bike!
  8. The police said the suspect was seen / had been seen trying to board a plane at Birmingham airport.
  9. How do you feel / are you feeling / have you been feeling about going to live in Australia? Are you still excited about it?
  10. I'm not sure what's wrong with me. I haven't felt / haven't been feeling myself recently.
  11. I'm sorry Mrs Jones, but it is felt by the teachers that we have no option but to expel Tom.
  12. Jack's exam is about to start. I can just imagine how he's feeling / feels / 'll be feeling.
  13. We've spent the whole holiday looking out at this rain. It's miserable.
  14. How long are you going to spend / will you spend / will you be spending deciding which dress to wear? We have to leave in ten minutes.
  15. Do you have any idea how much the government has spent / have spent so far on the new high-speed rail link?
  16. I just wonder how much will have been spent / they will have spent by the time it's finally finished?
  17. How did you find the film? Was it as funny as the critics said?
  18. She told me that she found it very difficult not to laugh in all the wrong places.
  19. He was found to have lied time and time again to the police.
  20. I think you'll find / 're going to find / 'll be finding that it's too hot for you in Dubai in August.
  21. Well, as I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted, I think you're mistaken.
  22. It's said / has been said that no one will ever know the truth about what happened.
  23. I'll say / say / 'm going to say it again, just as I've said it many times before, you're not going to an all-night party.
  24. There's something to be said for answering your emails immediately.