REPHRASING VERB

TENSES
 IT IS /IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE HE
PHONED/CAME/DROVE

 HE HASN’T PHONED/ COME/DRIVEN FOR A LONG

TIME?


 ITIS MONTHS/YEARS SINCE I
(LAST)SAW JANE
IHAVEN’T SEEN JANE FOR
MONTHS/YEARS
 THE LAST TIME I SPOKE TO HIM WAS ONE
YEAR AGO

 I HAVEN’T SPOKEN TO HIM FOR A YEAR

 It is ……since (past Ihaven’t…..for/
simple)
 The last time (past
since
simple) ago
 It is months since I
l(last) saw him Ihaven’t seen
him for months
 The last time I saw him
was months ago
 HE BEGAN/STARTED TO SPEAK/SPEAKING
JAPANESE FOUR YEARS AGO

 HE HAS SPOKEN JAPANESE FOR FOUR YEARS

 WHEN DID HE GET HIS JOB?

 HOW LONG AGO DID HE GET …?

 HOW LONG IS IT SINCE HE GOT
HIS JOB?
 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME HE
GOT A JOB?
 WHEN ……( IN PAST SIMPLE) (STARTED,
BEGAN, BOUGHT?

 HOW LONG HAVE/HAS ….HAD?

WHEN DID HE BUY HIS CAR?

HOW LONG HAS HE HAD HIS CAR?
I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO INDIA BEFORE

 IT
IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE (EVER)
BEEN TO INDIA

IAM VISITING INDIA FOR THE FIRST

TIME
IHAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A GOOD
FILM

 IT IS THE BEST FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN

 I HAVE NEVER READ SUCH A BORING

BOOK/SUCH A BAD BOOK

 IT IS THE MOST BORING /THE WORST

BOOK I HAVE EVER READ

OTHER CASES
 Who is the owner of this book? …….
 Whose / Who…..
 Whose book is this?/ whose is this book?
 who does this book belong to?
 We will finish this course in may……….
 By May……
 By may we will have finished this course
 First we arrived home, then we went to bed
 After …..
 After we had arrived home we went to bed
 The girl got lost . then she cried
 the girl cried because she had got lost.
 During our dinner, he phoned
 While …
 While we were having dinner, he phoned
REPHRASE THESE SENTENCES:

 WE HAVEN’T TESTED THIS KIND OF FOOD (IT’S)

 IT’S THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE EVER TESTED….
 I HAVE BEEN CLIMBING MOUNTAINS FOR 4 YEARS
 (I )
 I STARTED CLIMBING MOUNTAINS FOUR YEARS AGO
 SHEILA HASN’T SPOKEN GERMAN FOR YEARS
 (THE LAST TIME )
 THE LAST
 TIME SHEILA SPOKE GERMAN WAS YEARS AGO
 WE HAVE NEVER VISITED THIS CITY BEFORE
 IT’S
 IT’S THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE VISITED THIS CITY
 THEY HAVE NEVER TASTED SUCH DELICIOUS APPLES
 THESE ARE
 THESE ARE THE MOST DELICIOUS APPLES THEY HAVE EVER EATEN