Unit 23 · Verb forms

be/have/do in present and past tenses

Study

be (= am/is/are/was/were) + -ing (cleaning/working etc.)

am/is/are + -ing (present continuous) → Units 3–4 and 25

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Please be quiet. I'm working.

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It isn't raining at the moment.

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What are you doing this evening?

was/were + -ing (past continuous) → Unit 13

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I was working when she arrived.

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It wasn't raining, so we didn't need an umbrella.

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What were you doing at 3 o'clock?

be + past participle (cleaned/made/eaten etc.)

am/is/are + past participle (passive present simple) → Unit 21

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I'm never invited to parties.

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Butter is made from milk.

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These offices aren't cleaned every day.

was/were + past participle (passive past simple) → Unit 21

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The office was cleaned yesterday.

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These houses were built 100 years ago.

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How was the window broken?

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Where were you born?

have/has + past participle (cleaned/lost/eaten/been etc.)

have/has + past participle (present perfect) → Units 15–18

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I've cleaned my room.

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Tom has lost his passport.

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Kate hasn't been to Canada.

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Where have Paul and Emma gone?

do/does/did + infinitive (clean/like/eat/go etc.)

do/does + infinitive (present simple negative and questions) → Units 6–7

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I like coffee, but I don't like tea.

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Chris doesn't go out very often.

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What do you usually do at weekends?

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Does Sam live alone?

did + infinitive (past simple negative and questions) → Unit 12

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I didn't watch TV yesterday.

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It didn't rain last week.

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What time did Paul and Emma go out?

Exercises (5)

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23.1

Write is/are or do/does.

1
you work in the evenings?example
2
Where are they going?
3
Why you looking at me?
4
Ben live near you?
5
you like cooking?
6
the sun shining?
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What time the shops close?
8
Maria working today?
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What this word mean?
10
you feeling all right?

23.2

Write am not/isn't/aren't or don't/doesn't. All these sentences are negative.

1
Tom doesn't work at weekends. example
2
I'm very tired. I want to go out this evening.
3
I'm very tired. I going out this evening.
4
Gary working this week. He's on holiday.
5
My parents are usually at home. They go out very often.
6
Nicola has travelled a lot, but she speak any foreign languages.
7
You can turn off the television. I watching it.
8
Lisa has invited us to her party next week, but we going.

23.3

Write was/were/did/have/has.

1
Where were your shoes made? example
2
you go out last night?
3
What you doing at 10.30?
4
Where your mother born?
5
Laura gone home?
6
What time she go?
7
When these houses built?
8
Steve arrived yet?
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Why you go home early?
10
How long they been married?

23.4

Write is/are/was/were/have/has.

1
Joe has lost his passport. example
2
This bridge built ten years ago.
3
you finished your work yet?
4
This town is always clean. The streets cleaned every day.
5
Where you born?
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I just made some coffee. Would you like some?
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Glass made from sand.
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This is a very old photograph. It taken a long time ago.
9
David bought a new car.

23.5

Complete the sentences. Choose from the box and put the verb into the correct form.

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I'm going to take an umbrella with me. It's raining. example
2
Why are you so tired? Did you go to bed late last night?
3
Where are the chocolates? Have you them all?
4
How is your new job? Are you it?
5
My car was badly in the accident, but I was OK.
6
Kate has got a car, but she doesn't it very often.
7
Lisa isn't at home. She has away for a few days.
8
I don't the problem. Can you explain it again?
9
Mark is in his room. He's to music.
10
I don't know how to say this word. How is it ?
11
How do you this window? Can you show me?