Key Structures

Now, Often and Always?

Study these statements and questions:

Now Often and Always

Exercises

A. Write out these two paragraphs again. Give the right form of the words in brackets:

1. I am looking out of my window. I can see some children in the street. The children

( ) (play) football. They always ( ) (play) football in the street. Now a little boy ( ) (kick) the ball. Another boy ( ) (run) after him but he can not catch him.

2. I carried my bags into the hall.

‘What ( you ) (do)’my landlady asked.

‘I ( ) (leave), Mrs Lynch,’I answered.

‘Why ( you ) (leave)’she asked. ‘You have been here only a week.’

‘A week too long, Mrs Lynch,’I said.‘There are too many rules in this house. My friends never ( ) (come) to visit me. Dinner is always at seven o’clock, so I frequently ( ) (go) to bed hungry. You don’t like noise, so I rarely ( ) (listen) to the radio. The heating doesn’t work, so I always ( ) (feel) cold. This is a terrible place for a man like me. Gookbye, Mrs Lynch.’

B. Note the position of the words in italics in these sentences:

My friends never come to visit me.

I frequently go to bed hungry.

I rarely listen to the radio.

I always feel cold.

I never get up early on Sundays.

I sometimes stay in bed until lunch time.

Write these sentences again. Put the words in brackets in the right place:

1. She answers my letters. (rarely)

2. We work after six o’clock. (never)

3. The shops close on Saturday afternoon. (always)

4. Do you go to work by car? (always)

5. Our teacher collects our copybooks. (frequently)