Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
By the time the emergency food supplies arrived, 30 people had been dying.
By the time the emergency food supplies arrived, 30 people had died
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Lose 25 points!
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Take 10 points!
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Go to first place!
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Lose 15 points!
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Which tense is correct?
This time next week I'll lie /'ll be lying on a beach in Spain.
This time next week I'll be lying on a beach in Spain.
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What's the difference between these two sentences?
a What do you think?
b What are you thinking?
Sentence a asks for your opinion.
Sentence b asks about what is on your mind/your mental process now.
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What's the difference between these two sentences?
a He's very rude.
b He's being very rude.
Sentence a describes his general character/behaviour.
Sentence b describes how he is behaving now.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
They've been living next door for years, but we've never spoken to them.
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What's the difference between these two sentences?
a I'll be cooking dinner when you get home.
b I'll cook dinner when you get home.
In sentence a, I will start cooking dinner before you get home.
In sentence b, I will start cooking dinner when you get home.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
Tom was exhausted because he'd been working too hard.
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Which tense is correct?
He is working / has been working there since he left / was leaving university.
He has been working there since he left university.
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Which tense: Present perfect simple or continuous?
Oh no! The train ____ (stop) again! I ____ (sit) on this train for hours and I ____ (already / miss) my first meeting!
Oh no! The train has stopped again! I've been sitting on this train for hours and I've already missed my first meeting!
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
Careful where you walk. Susie's been breaking a vase and Johnny's already cut himself.
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Careful where you walk. Susie's broken a vase and Johnny's already cut himself.
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Is this sentence right or wrong? (If it's wrong, correct it.)
As soon as she was seeing the time, she was jumping out of bed.
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As soon as she saw the time, she jumped out of bed.
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Which tense: Present simple or continuous?
Peter _____ (play) football at the moment. He_____ (want) to be a footballer when he grows up.
Peter is playing football at the moment. He wants to be a footballer when he grows up.
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Which tense: Past simple or Past continuous?
When he ______ (arrive)at the party, everyone ______ (talk) and ______ (laugh).
When he arrived at the party, everyone was talking and laughing.