... continuous and the be going to form
48 The future simple
49 The present continuous and the future simple
50 will + infinitive and the be going to form
51 will + infinitive and the be going ... the verbs in brackets into the present continuous tense. In No. 25, have is used as
an ordinary verb and can therefore be used in the continuous tense.
1 She (not work), she (swim) in the river.
2 ... form
52 The future continuous tense
53 will + infinitive and the future continuous
54 won't + infinitive and the future continuous negative
55 Second person interrogative: will you and...
... under study.
ENGLISH ARTICLESIN RUSSIAN -ENGLISH
3
[Mechanical Translation, vol. 8, No. 1, August 1964]
Preliminary Report on the Insertion of EnglishArticlesin Russian-
English MT Output*
...
encountered in which various articles may be inserted
without doing violence to the text, and occasionally
without altering in any simply statable way the intuitive
meaning of the passage. In: "He ... the English articles. This kind of
ambiguity is not always formally resolvable since it
often raises the particular question: "What did the
author mean in this instance?" In such instances,...
... him.
22 The twins used to play rugby.
20
A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: a/an, the
4 Articles and possessive ... continuous and the be going to form
48 The future simple
49 The present continuous and the future simple
50 will + infinitive and the be going to form
51 will + infinitive and the be going ... perfect infinitive
PEG 152, 156, 159
must + perfect infinitive is used for affirmative deductions.
can't/couldn't + infinitive is used for negative deductions.
needn't + perfect infinitive...
... if you were thinking of going by bus.
A: If I ring Peter –
B (interrupting): Oh, are you thinking of ringing Peter?
A: What did you say?
B: I asked if you were thinking of ringing Peter.
If I ... news in English.
10. writes in Spanish.
11. goes to Indian films. (Use a French film in the answer.)
12. talks English.
13. corrects the Spanish essays.
14. explains in English.
15. lectures in ... buying bananas.
2. They're going to Rome.
3. He was eating fish and chips.
4. She's ordering chops.
5. They were living in England.
6. He's writing a novel.
7. They're drinking...