Use either the SIMPLE PRESENT or the PRESENT PROGRESSIVE of the verbs
in parentheses.
1. I can't afford that ring. It (cost) costs too much.2. Look. It (begin) ____________________________ to rain. Unfortunately, I (have,not*) __________ my umbrella with me. Tom is lucky. He (wear) ____________________ a raincoat.
3. I (own, not) ________________________ an umbrella. I (wear) _______________________ a waterproof hat on rainy days.
4. Right now I (look) _____________________ around the classroom. Yoko (write) _________________ in her book. Carlos (bite) _______________ his pencil. Wan-Ning (scratch) _____________________ his head. Ahmed (stare) _____________________ out the window. He (seem) ______________________ to be daydreaming, but perhaps he (think) _______________________________ hard about verb tenses. What (think, you) _________________________________ Ahmed (do) ______________________ ?
5. There's book on my desk, but it (belong, not) _________________ to me.
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*A form of do is usually used in the negative when the main verb is have (especially in American English but also commonly in British English); e.g., I don't have a car. Using have without a form of do is also possible but less common: I haven't a car.