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Exercise 98.
Explain the use of tenses in the following sentences. 
1. I’ve been living next door to Alison for five years but I’ve never 
spoken to her. 2. Marie has been going out with Steve for a year now, and they 
are planning to get married. 3. This fund has been helping people for 
generations. 4. The inspector has been keeping a watch on the house for the last 
few days. 5. “I have been keeping this bracelet specially for you,” said my 
grandmother. 6. In my eyes you can see all the love that I’ve been feeling. 7. 
I’ve been waiting for this holiday for so long! 8. Where are my letters? Have 
you been hiding things from me again? 9. What a smell? What have you been 
smoking? 10. For over three centuries farmers in the Philippines have been 
growing the finest tobacco leaf in the world.
Exercise 99.
Answer the following questions. Use since and for in your answers. 
1. How long have you been living in this city? 2. How long have you been 
studying in this class? 3. How long have you been studying English? 4. Have 
you been waiting for me for a long time? 5. How long have you been smoking? 
6. Have you been running this firm for a long time? 7. How long have you been 
wearing glasses? 8. How long have we already been working? 9. Have you been 
doing your present job long? 10. How long have you been peeling all those 
potatoes?


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Exercise 100.
Explain the use of The Past Perfect Continuous in the following 
sentences.
1. We were tired as we had been walking for more than an hour. It was 
time to rest a little. 2. The boy had been reading the task in physics for a long 
time but still he didn’t understand it. 3. Mrs. Jackson was one of the best 
teachers at the school. She had been teaching for twenty years. 4. Dora was 
writing a letter to her boyfriend. She had been writing it since she got home 
from class. 5. My eyes were getting tired. I had been reading for two hours. I 
decided to make a break. 6. Mr. Robbins liked his job. He had been working at 
the company for fifteen years. 7. She put aside the sweater which she had been 
knitting. 8. The secretary closed the file which she had just been looking 
through. 9. They had been driving all night when finally they saw the lights of a 
big city. 10. When I entered the flat, I saw that everything was in a mess. 
Somebody had been searching the rooms. 11. The boys had black eyes and torn 
trousers. They had been fighting. 12. At least he got the opportunity he had been 
waiting for so long. 


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