The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.1 for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Lindsay White from Pearson Education
Question
Read the article. Find and correct seven mistakes with the continuous aspect.
Read the blog again. Underline seven examples of the continuous aspect used correctly. Why is the continuous used in these examples? Match them with uses a)-e).
Answer
a)
Recently I'm walkingI was walking through the aisles of a bookshop ...
... when I was noticingnoticed ...
The title is the first thing the reader is seeingsees ...
... if she hadn't been changingchanged ...
That's OK, but I'm preferringI prefer ...
I thinkI'm thinking of writing a book ...
It's something l've plannedl've been planning ...
b)
Paul McCartney had been working
you've been working on your masterpiece
it's getting harder and harder
People in the book business are always saying, Publishers are always telling
I was hoping to find something, I'm expecting it to make me millions