Exercise 4. Past Indefinite or Present Perfect? Put the verbs into the correct tense forms.

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Exercise 3. Open the brackets using the verbs in the required tense form and translate the sentences from English into Russian.

1) Many people [to be– Past Indefinite Active] afraid of the railways when they first [to appear– Past Indefinite Active].

2) The movement of trains was stopped on that section of the line because the workers [to replace– Past Continuous Active] the sleepers.

3) Several newspapers [to report– Present Perfect Active] that the Russian and Finnish governments [to discuss– Present Continuous Active] a project for the reconstruction of the Helsinki - St.Petersburg railroad known in Finland as the Eastern Railway.

4) There [to be– Past Indefinite Active] a car by the side of the road. It had been broken down and the driver [to try– Past Continuous Active] to repair it.

5) Nowadays crossties are made of wood, concrete, steel, cast-iron;

in some countries experiments [to go on– Present Continuous Active] with plastic sleepers.

6) He [to spend– Present Indefinite Active] all his spare time driving his new car.

7) I [to take– Present Perfect Active] somebody else's suitcase by mistake.

8) Turn off the gas. Don't you see the kettle [to boil –Present Continuous Active]?

1) I [to lose] my passport last month, and nobody to find it yet.

2) Two years [to pass] since he left.

3) They [to move] to Washington several years ago.

4) The engineer [to show] his foreign friends the bridge in the building of which he to take part in 1980.

5) He [not/ to decide] yet what to do.

6) We [to know] each other since childhood.

7) The journalists [to ask] me many questions at the yesterday's interview.

8) When … you [to arrive] in Prague? – I [to arrive] here last September. So I [to live] in this city for three months.

9) Are you still studying or … you already [to find] a job?

10) I [to rush] to the platform and [to get] on the train.

11) The coffee I [ to buy] last week is very good but very expensive.

12) We [to learn] a lot of words and grammatical rules lately.

13) All my money [to steal] on the way to the airport yesterday and I couldn't fly anywhere.

14) Mail just [to deliver] by the helicopter

15) …you ever [to visit] other countries? – Yes, I to be to France and Spain.

16) Today I [to invite] to give a talk on the radio.

17) Don't worry! The equipment already [to pack].

18) We first to come to this town more than twenty years ago. Everything [to change] in the town since that time.

19) The nearest way to the station [to show] to them an hour ago, but they [not/ to arrive] yet.

20) She [to ask] the clerk if all the trains arrive on time here.