Check your grammar with mixed tense exercise.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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JANE
● work / as / a reporter / for a national TV station
● she / always / work / with the same cameraman
● she / be / a journalist / 5 years
● she / not make an interview / with a famous
person / yet
● today / she / report live events / from Ontario
● she / wear / a blue blouse
● yesterday / she / come / to Ontario / by car
● while / she / drive / the car / break down
● she / have to / take a taxi
● she / enjoy / her work / because / she / travel / to different cities and countries
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PAST SIMPLE, PAST CONTINUOUS
CHRISTOPHER
● a professional cyclist / since / 2001
● he / cycle / around 20 km / every day
● he / never / lose a race / in his life
● he / always / wear a helmet / because / he /
want to / be safe
● he / take part / in an international race / today
● so far / he / cycle / around 10 km
● two weeks ago / he / participate / in a race / in
Los Angeles
● while / he / cycle across LA / he / see / another cyclist / who / lie on the ground
● he / stop / to help him / and then / he / continue / the race
● he / win / a gold medal / in that race / and / become / a hero
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MICHAEL
● work / as a surgeon / in a local hospital
● he / usually / work / night shifts / but / today /
he / work / a day shift
● he / never / operate on / a child / before
● three hours ago / he / operate on / a
20-year-old woman / who / have / appendicitis
● while / he / operate on her / he / listen to
modern jazz music
● it / always / calm / him down
● now / he / assist / another surgeon / during / an operation
● they / often / work / as a team
● later today / they / have / lunch together
● he / have / a stressful job / but / he / like it / because / he can / save people’s lives
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PRESENT SIMPLE, PRESENT CONTINUOUS, PRESENT PERFECT,
PAST SIMPLE, PAST CONTINUOUS
KIM, PAM, JOE
● students of linguistics
● they / be interested in / foreign languages
● they / prepare / for an exam / at the moment
● they / take / the exam / tomorrow morning
● they / always / study together / in a park
● Kim / already / learn / everything / so / she /
teach / Pam and Joe / now
● they / hope / to do well at the exam / and then /
they / plan to go / to a party
● last week / they / sit / a very difficult exam / but / they / not get / the results / yet
● during that exam / one of the students / cheat / for the whole time
● the professor / notice that / and / that student / fail the exam
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