The present perfect simple and continuous Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense: present perfect simple or present perfect continuous. 1 Peter: You (telephone) for ages. You not nearly (finish)? Jack: I (not get) through yet. I (try) to get our Paris office but the line (be) engaged all morning. 2 Ann (fail) her driving test three times because she’s so bad at reversing. But she (practise) reversing for the last week and I think she (get) a bit better at it. 3 Tom: I often
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CHAPTER Perfect Competition 11 After studying this chapter you will be able to ! Define perfect competition ! Explain how firms make their supply decisions and why they sometimes shut down temporarily and lay off workers ! Explain how price and output in an industry are determined and why firms enter and leave the industry ! Predict the effects of a change in demand and of a technological advance ! Explain why perfect competition is efficient The Busy Bee The busy
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A Perfect Life My daily morning routine leads me to realize one thing - my life is perfect. Every day when I wake up‚ I curse my alarm‚ stumble to the bathroom‚ and brush my teeth while I stare out the window. Sometimes I stand there too long‚ or at least longer than my sleepy body allows. Regardless‚ I enjoy this. Here I can meditate about everything that I do: breaking my pitching wedge in half in frustration after a poor round of golf or completing a plethora of schoolwork. However‚ only
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The Perfect Storm‚ written by Sebastian Junger‚ is a novel about a six-man crew on a commercial fishing boat called the ""Andrea Gail"". It takes place in October of 1991. The crew of the "Andrea Gail" leaves from Gloucester Massachusetts on a sword fishing expedition. They fish from Georges Bank‚ which is off the coast of Massachusetts‚ to The Grand Banks‚ located off the coast of Newfoundland. They also travel to the Flemish Cap which is located in almost the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean
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English 1 Block 7 11/09/12 Leon Babaev 1608 Lamarre 1 English 1 Block 7 11/09/12 Self-acceptance and the Need to Resolve Emotional Conflicts in The Utterly Perfect Murder By Ray Bradbury Being able to achieve self-acceptance plays a key role in allowing people to reconcile their past. Ray Bradbury explores this idea in his short story “The Utterly Perfect Murder”. This story‚ set in the main character‚ Doug’s‚ hometown is about a grown man seeking revenge on his childhood bully enemy. In this story Bradbury
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I have chosen to analyze the Perfect forms in English as they have always presented difficulties to learners and also because opinions of linguists differ greatly as far as these forms are concerned The aim of my paper was‚ on the one hand to investigate the main peculiarities of the perfect form trying to define their basic functions‚ meanings and their position within the system of the English verb‚ and on the other hand‚ bringing into comparison the verb systems of the English and Romanian
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My perfect day would start by me waking early — 7:30 am is early‚ for me — feeling refreshed and restored. I haven’t had a relaxing night of sleep in months and often awaken far later than I had planned‚ feeling guilty‚ stiff‚ and still sleepy. After a hot shower and a shave I’d put on a comfortable outfit‚ including nice socks (it’s amazing how wearing a pair of nice socks can improve my day)‚ comfortable jeans‚ and a tagless t-shirt (really‚ the ones without itchy tags in the back of the neck
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This Perfect Day is probably Ira Levin’s greatest work of his career. Levin’s work‚ despite being written in 1970‚ is very plausible having realistic technology‚ such as scanners and computers which watch over the entire family‚ the entire population of the world. This novel could be used to show the dangers of a Utopian society as well as being full of anti-Communist and anti-racist sentiment. This Perfect Day also displays the feeling that communist and segregated institutions can be defeated
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To be perfect is everyone’s dream. However through my own eyes I can only see my every imperfection. I have never been the academic‚ the sports star or the beauty queen. It’s now year twelve and it seems everything matters‚ every essay‚ every test and every exam. I wish sometimes that I could run away; forever‚ never turn back and live a life free of stress‚ fighting and disappointments. It is then I awake from the dream and hear the deafening sound of the bell. Every day is the same. I sit in class
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it strange how we want it‚ despite all we know? To be at last the girl in the photography‚ cobalt-eyed‚ hair puddling like cognac‚ or the one stretched at the ocean’s edge‚ curved and light-drenched‚ more like a beach than the beach. I confess I have longed to stalk runways‚ leggy‚ otherworldly as a mantis‚ to balance a head like a Fabergé egg on the longest‚ most elegant neck. Today in the checkout line‚ I saw a magazine claiming to know “How to Find the Perfect Dress for
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