Present Simple or Present Continuous – Exercise 2

Task No. 1298

Put the verb in brackets the Present Simple or the Present Continuous.

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Present Simple and Present Continuous Contrasted

Welcome to your Present Simple or Present Continuous – Exercise 2

1
Petra occasionally wine. (to drink)
Clue
Occasionally = Present Simple. Petra (3rd Person Singular) INFINITIVE + S
2
They never meat. (to eat)
Clue
NEVER = Present Simple, They (3rd person plural) + INFINITIVE.
3
Listen! Somebody in the basement. (to play)
Clue
LISTEN = PRESENT CONTINUOUS, SOMEBODY (3rd person singular) = IS + INFINITIVE + ING
4
My dad usually to work. (to drive)
Clue
USUALLY = Present Simple. MY DAD (3rd person singular) → INFINITIVE + S
5
My father in the garden at the moment. (to work)
Clue
AT THE MOMENT = Present Continuous, My Father = 3rd person singular = IS + INFINITIVE + ING
6
She never to help in the kitchen. (to offer)
Clue
NEVER = Present Simple, SHE (3rd person singular) → INFINITIVE + S.
7
The children TV now. (to watch)
Clue
NOW = Present Continuous, THE CHILDREN (3rd Person Singular) → ARE + INFINITIVE + ING
8
Every day his girlfriend two kilometres. (to swim)
Clue
EVERY DAY = PRESENT SIMPLE, His Girlfriend (3rd person singular) → INFINITIVE + S
9
I a good book at the moment. (to read)
Clue
AT THE MOMENT = Present Continuous, I = 1st person singular → AM + INFINITIVE + ING
10
Birds in the sky. (to fly)
Clue
Things in general → Present Simple, BIRDS (3rd Person Plural) → INFINITIVE