Answer — Exercise 1
1 - Tense review·New Headway Advanced - Workbook
Question
Complete each sentence with a correct form of the verb above, simple or continuous, active or passive, positive or negative.
Answer
- What are you thinking? You look depressed.
- Sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I didn't think it would upset you so much.
- Tom, I've been thinking / was thinking / 'm thinking / think maybe we should move house. What do you think?
- He told me he couldn't give me an answer now. He said he would think / was thinking / was going to think about it.
- Hi, Paula! How are you? I haven't seen you for ages.
- I can't make the meeting tomorrow - I'm seeing / 'm going to see the doctor for a check-up.
- Did you see that? That guy nearly knocked that girl off her bike!
- The police said the suspect was seen / had been seen trying to board a plane at Birmingham airport.
- How do you feel / are you feeling / have you been feeling about going to live in Australia? Are you still excited about it?
- I'm not sure what's wrong with me. I haven't felt / haven't been feeling myself recently.
- I'm sorry Mrs Jones, but it is felt by the teachers that we have no option but to expel Tom.
- Jack's exam is about to start. I can just imagine how he's feeling / feels / 'll be feeling.
- We've spent the whole holiday looking out at this rain. It's miserable.
- 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.
- Do you have any idea how much the government has spent / have spent so far on the new high-speed rail link?
- I just wonder how much will have been spent / they will have spent by the time it's finally finished?
- How did you find the film? Was it as funny as the critics said?
- She told me that she found it very difficult not to laugh in all the wrong places.
- He was found to have lied time and time again to the police.
- I think you'll find / 're going to find / 'll be finding that it's too hot for you in Dubai in August.
- Well, as I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted, I think you're mistaken.
- It's said / has been said that no one will ever know the truth about what happened.
- 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.
- There's something to be said for answering your emails immediately.