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1. We reached the venue before the show .............................
2. Her parents .................................. with her.
We use the simple present to talk about permanent situations.
3. We ........................................ in Mumbai for fifteen years by next January.
The future perfect and the future perfect continuous is used to say that something will have been done by a certain time in the future.
4. We ..................................... two tickets before rain interrupted the match.
The past perfect is used to talk about the earlier of the two past actions.
5. I ..................................... him twice before he went abroad.
The past perfect is used to talk about the earlier of the two past actions.
6. When I was young, I .................................... exercise every day.
We use used to to talk about past habits.
7. She ...................................... for the US tonight.
The present continuous is used to talk about pre-planned future events.
8. Water .................................... at 100 degree Celsius.
The simple present is used to talk about facts.
9. We ....................................... in this house for ten years now.
The present perfect is used to talk about actions or situations that started in the past and has continued up to the present.
10. I ........................................ her if I wanted to.
Could have + past participle can be used to talk about unrealized past events.
11. Does she ................................... what she is doing?
We use the first form of the verb (infinitive) after do, does and did.
12. He .................................. to be a scientist.
Answers
1. We reached the venue before the show began.
2. Her parents live with her.
3. We will have been living in Mumbai for fifteen years by next January.
4. We had lost two tickets before rain interrupted the match.
5. I had seen him twice before he went abroad.
6. When I was young, I used to exercise every day.
7. She is leaving for the US tonight.
8. Water boils at 100 degree Celsius.
9. We have lived in this house for ten years now.
10. I could have married her if I wanted to.
11. Does she know what she is doing?
12. He has always wanted to be a scientist.
