Questões de Língua Inglesa da METTA C&C

Habitual events;

Predictions

Requests and invitations;

Directives

Disapproval

You can borrow the car but be careful;

Can you see the post office on the corner;

I can just imagine how surprised they looked;

It can rain quite a lot in Ireland in August;

How can they be there already? They only left ten minutes ago.

I don’t think the internet will ever completely replace books;

I don’t think the internet will ever completely replace the books;

Life has its moments of frustration for all of us;

Yeah. That’s what I’ve used on the furniture I’vemade, you know, the TV table and stuff;

If you’re going to paint the wall, we’ll have to move the furniture.

It refers to a time-frame leading up to the moment of speaking, so the past perfect refers to a time-frame leading up to a point in the past;

It refers to a time-frame that is in some way separated from the present; there is a break between the completion of the event and the present moment;

It suggests that the events may be seen more as background or of secondary importance;

It is often used for events which started in the past and are still continuing, or which have stopped, but whose effects are still continuing;

None of the answers.

The progressive form is not normally used with punctual verbs such as start, stop, finish, which refer to actions that are completed at a single point in time;

The progressive form is often used for events which started in the past and are still continuing, or which have stopped, but whose effects are still continuing;

The difference between the present perfect simple and the present perfect progressive may sometimes be between an emphasis on the event itself as a progressive, extended activity (progressive form), compared with the results of the event, or some other, secondary reference to the event (simple form);

Both forms may refer to completed events;

The progressive form of the present perfect can emphasise completion of an event when used with verbs denoting actions or events.