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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.4 - Grammar for the textbook Wider World 2 - Student's Book with authors Bob Hastings and Stuart McKinlay from Pearson Education

Question

Find two more examples for each rule in the text in Exercise 1.

Answer

  1. Rule 1 – Present Simple for facts and routines → I usually go straight home after school. I do my homework and then I play Myths of Zoraya.
  2. Rule 2 – Present Continuous for things happening at the moment of speaking → But today I’m not sitting at home. I’m with my friends in the town centre. We’re wearing funny costumes and we’re collecting money for sick children. We’re lucky. It isn’t raining.
  3. Rule 3 – Present Continuous for things happening around now but maybe not at the time of speaking → What are you doing to break free from your routine? My team is taking part in an online tournament this week. We aren’t doing very well but we are getting better.