Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

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

  1. Read the article. Find and correct seven mistakes with the continuous aspect.
  2. 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 walking I was walking through the aisles of a bookshop ...
  • ... when I was noticing noticed ...
  • The title is the first thing the reader is seeing sees ...
  • ... if she hadn't been changing changed ...
  • That's OK, but I'm preferring I prefer ...
  • I think I'm thinking of writing a book ...
  • It's something l've planned l've been planning ...

b)

  1. Paul McCartney had been working
  2. you've been working on your masterpiece
  3. it's getting harder and harder
  4. People in the book business are always saying, Publishers are always telling
  5. I was hoping to find something, I'm expecting it to make me millions