PRESENT AND PAST PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS GRAMMAR 17 Choose the correct option. Sometimes both options are acceptable. 1. She has worked / has been working a lot recently to support her family. Her husband has been fired / has been being fired. 2. How long have you talked / have you been talking? Haven t you got a sore throat? 3. I have tried / have been trying to phone the counsellor ten times this afternoon, but he hasn t answered / hasn t been answering. 4. Martin hasn t been / hasn t been being at work for some time now he has helped / has been helping his wife to get over a serious accident. 5. What had they done / had they been doing when you saw them? Their eyes were puffy, and their noses were red. 6. After she had loved / had been loving him most of her life, he left her when she fell seriously ill. He had met / had been meeting another woman. 7. How long had you worked / had you been working together before you found out he had stolen / had been stealing for months? 8. The psychologist had talked / had been talking to all the students in the class, so he was then able to understand what the problem was. 18 Complete the sentences with the correct tense: present perfect simple or continuous, past perfect simple or continuous. In one case you need the passive form. Sometimes, both the simple and the continuous forms are acceptable. 1. He ........................................................................... (be) there all her life, so she accepted his marriage proposal without a doubt. notice) that some money ........................................................................... (go) missing. 2. They ........................................................................... (wait) for over three hours and they still ........................................................................... (call) in. This is total inefficiency. 6. Ashley ........................................................................... (stand) for hours in the rain when a small boy offered her some shelter under his umbrella. 3. Men ........................................................................... (do) household chores for some years now, but 50 years ago it was not so common. 7. By the time he was forty, he ......................................................................... (travel) across 33 countries and .................................................................. (visit) over 60 ethnic tribes. 4. They ........................................................................... (quarrel) since they got married. They can t go on like this. 8. How many people ........................................................................... (you, 5. Carlos said that he ........................................................................... (not, VOCABULARY help) while working as a social worker? COMPOUND NOUNS 19 Using the two groups of words below, make compound nouns and place them in the appropriate column. Use a dictionary if necessary. A: dead sit draw self strong check well spot self science B: light restraint being in fiction back hold line interest up Closed, solid (4 words) B2 UNIT 11 Hyphenated (5 words) 122 Open, spaced (1 word)