GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT3:SEVENTH EDITION

ANSWER KEY

UNIT 1 LANGUAGE

Verb Tense Review

Reading 1

COMPREHENSION p. 5

1. T 2. F 3. F

THINK ABOUT IT p. 5

Possible answers:

1. Answers will vary.

2. When you learn a person’s language, you also learn something about their culture and customs. For example, in some languages, the word “no” is not used as frequently as in English. Words or phrases like “not yet” or “maybe” are more common. It is considered too strong or even rude to say “no.”

1.1 The Present of Be

EXERCISE 1 p. 6

1. ’s your native language 2. language is 3. Are you from 4. I’m not

5. I’m  6. Where’s  7. It’s  8. is it in  9. Is French  10. it isn’t

11. There are  12. are

EXERCISE 2 p. 6

1. are there  2. are  3. is  4. is  5. Is it  6. isn’t  7. ’re  8. are

9. There are 10. it’s  11. is  12. ’s  13. Is Cameroon  14. are  15. ’s

16. ’m  17. ’m  18. Are you  19. am

1.2 The Simple Present

EXERCISE 3 pp. 8–9

1. Does he live  2. doesn’t speak/does not speak 3. Does he speak, does

4. Does he memorize  5. uses, does  6. Does he take 7. has, Does, does

8. have, Does  9. does he feel  10. isn’t/is not, isn’t he

11. doesn’t challenge/does not challenge  12. feels, Does he, does

13. Do they speak  14. isn’t/is not  15. Does he study, doesn’t/does not

16. does he practice  17. speak

EXERCISE 4 pp. 9–10

1. Do you speak  2. say  3. speak  4. has  5. speak  6. has

7. Do you know  8. don’t/do not  9. speaks  10. call  11. do you use

12. use 13. write  14. Do you want to see  15. do 16. does Chinese have

17. doesn’t have/does not have  18. has  19. represents  20. seems

21. takes  22. looks  23. looks

ABOUT YOU p. 10

Answers will vary.

EXERCISE 5 pp. 10–12

1. ’s  2. are you from  3. do you spell  4. Do you speak  5. is

6. speak  7. is  8. don’t know/do not know  9. Does Vietnamese use

10. does  11. Do you see  12. do  13. looks  14. Is it

15. does “tonal” mean  16. means  17. are  18. means  19. has

20. has  21. doesn’t have/does not have  22. speaks  23. do you spell

24. speak  25. don’t know/do not know  26. want to learn  27. takes

28. do you say

ABOUT YOU p. 12

Answers will vary.

1.3 The Present Continuous

EXERCISE 6 p. 13

1. T  2. F  3. F

EXERCISE 7 p. 14

1. Are, talking  2. ‘re using  3. Are they spelling  4. ’re using

5. I’m beginning  6. are you studying

EXERCISE 8 p. 15

1. ’m taking  2. ’re getting  3. ’s learning  4. ’s wearing 5. ’m knitting

ABOUT YOU p. 15

Answers will vary.

ABOUT YOU p. 15

Answers will vary.

1.4 The Present Continuous vs. The Simple

Present—Action and Nonaction Verbs

EXERCISE 9 p. 17

1. are you looking  2. is he speaking 3. don’t recognize/do not recognize

4. Do you understand  5. ’m watching/am watching

6. ’m listening/am listening  7. hear  8. sounds  9. knows  10. looks

11. ’s he talking/is he talking  12. are they talking

13. ’s talking/is talking  14. ’re introducing/are introducing  15. look

16. takes  17. loves  18. ’s having/is having 19. ’s laughing/is laughing

20. joking  21. think  22. doesn’t like/does not like

23. ’s he planning/is he planning/does he plan  24. ’s thinking/is thinking

25. think

ABOUT YOU p. 17

Answers will vary.

Reading 2

COMPREHENSION p. 19

1. F  2. T  3. T

THINK ABOUT IT p. 19

Answers will vary.

1.5 The Future—Form

EXERCISE 10 p. 20

1. ’m going to change  2. are you going to study  3. ’m going to get

4. ’s going to prepare  5. go  6. ’m going to be  7. ’ll be  8. will it be

9. practice  10. ’ll be  11. ’m going to room  12. ’m going to speak

13. will improve  14. ’re going to learn  15. teach 16. ’m going to start

EXERCISE 11 p. 21

1. will teach  2. die  3. will be able to hear  4. will learn  5. will have

6. will make  7. will continue  8. visit  9. will hear

EXERCISE 12 p. 21

1. ‘re going to have/are going to have

2. ’re going to switch/are going to switch  3. are you going to do

4. ’s going to have/is going to have

5. ’re not going to live/are not going to live

6. aren’t going to be/are not going to be

7. ’s going to lose/is going to lose  8. ‘s going to have/is going to have

ABOUT YOU p. 22

Answers will vary.

1.6 Will, Be Going To, or Present Continuous

for Future

EXERCISE 13 p. 23

1. ’ll go  2. ’m going to get/am going to get 3. are you going to research

4. ’m just going to google/am just going to google/’ll just google/will just google

5. are you going to write  6. ’m going to look/am going to look

7. ’ll go/will go 8. won’t bother/will not bother 9. ’ll just get/will just get

10. ’ll check/will check 11. will you help 12. will 13. won’t do/will not do

14. ’m not going to do/am not going to do/won’t do/will not do

15. ’ll do/will do  16. ’ll buy/will buy  17. ’ll be/will be

Reading 3

COMPREHENSION p. 25

1. F  2. F  3. T

THINK ABOUT IT p. 25

Answers will vary.

1.7 The Simple Past

EXERCISE 14 p. 26

1. a. was, b. was, c. wasn’t  2. a. liked, b. didn’t like, c. didn’t she like

3. a. Did she have, b. did, c. had, d. died  4. a. taught, b. taught

5. a. did she live, b. lived  6. a. didn’t speak, b. didn’t they speak

EXERCISE 15 pp. 26–27

1. didn’t live  2. took  3. didn’t start/did not start

4. didn’t feel/did not feel, didn’t she feel  5. did they give

6. did she teach Loulis/did she teach him  7. wasn’t/was not

8. did Washoe die/did she die

EXERCISE 16 pp. 27–28

1. Did you like  2. did  3. wasn’t/was not  4. were  5. saw/watched

6. learned  7. did she die  8. Was she  9. did they begin  10. was

11. Did you learn  12. wanted  13. gave  14. wasn’t/was not 15. want

16. Did they give  17. did  18. chose  19. gave  20. ran  21. told

22. was  23. did she sign  24. gave

ABOUT YOU p. 29

Answers will vary.

REVIEW p. 31

1. are you reading  2. seem  3. ’s/is  4. are disappearing 5. became

6. died  7. Does that mean  8. didn’t speak/did not speak  9. learned

10. died  11. speak  12. Did, record  13. died  14. started  15. ’s/is

16. have  17. ’ll speak/will speak/’m going to speak/am going to speak

18. ’re/are  19. ’ll have/will have/’re going to have/are going to have

20. want  21. don’t want/do not want  22. need  23. send

EDITING PRACTICE pp. 32–33

1. were born  2. C  3. didn’t speak/did not speak  4. C  5. C 6. heard

7. C  8. C  9. started to lose  10. I think  11. is dying  12. C  13. C

14. didn’t try/did not try  15. became  16. C  17. do you want to study

18. don’t you study  19. doesn’t understand/does not understand  20. C

21. What does schlep mean?  22. C  23. C  24. has  25. C 26. speaks

27. C  28. have  29. I’m going/I am going

UNIT 2 RISK

The Present Perfect and the Present

Perfect Continuous

Reading 1

COMPREHENSION p. 37

1. F  2. F  3. T

THINK ABOUT IT p. 37

Answers will vary. 

2.1 The Present Perfect—Form

EXERCISE 1 p. 38

2.2 The Past Participle

EXERCISE 2 p. 39

1. have read/’ve read  2. has done/’s done  3. have begun/have started

4. have made/’ve made  5. has been/’s been 6. has observed/‘s observed

7. have/’ve, heard  8. has started/’s started/has begun/’s begun

2.3 Placement of Adverbs

EXERCISE 3 p. 40

1. ’ve never thought  2. ’ve always tried  3. ’ve never jumped

4. ’ve never climbed  5. have never occurred  6. ’ve taken 7. haven’t

8. have I done  9. ’ve always thought  10. ’ve given

EXERCISE 4 p. 40

1. have you been  2. Have you ever thought  3. ’ve taken  4. ’ve had to

5. has already improved  6. has always been  7. haven’t always understood  8. have said  9. have usually been  10. ’ve had to

11. ’ve learned  12. ’ve even learned  13. ’ve gained  14. has gotten

15. ’ve already made  16. has involved

2.4 The Present Perfect—Overview of Uses

EXERCISE 5 p. 41

1. has been  2. ’s become/has become  3. ’s walked/has walked

4. ’s never had/has never had

Reading 2

COMPREHENSION p. 43

1. F  2. F  3. T

THINK ABOUT IT p.43

Answers will vary.

2.5 The Present Perfect with Indefnite Past

Time—Overview

EXERCISE 6 p. 44

1. F  2. T  3. F

EXERCISE 7 pp. 44–45

1. ’ve thought  2. ’ve heard  3. have died  4. Have you ever had

5. have just started  6. have never been  7. have just started

8. Have you ever heard  9. haven’t  10. haven’t finished

11. haven’t had

EXERCISE 8 p. 45

1. ’ve just seen  2. Have you ever heard of  3. never have

4. ’ve already bought/have already bought 5. ’ve never been/have never been  6. haven’t seen/have not seen

2.6 The Present Perfect with Ever and Never

EXERCISE 9 pp. 46–47

1. a. Have you ever done, b. have, c. went, d. ’ve never done

2. a. Have you ever flown, b. never have, c. haven’t/have not

3. a. Have you ever played, b. have, c. ran, d. ’ve heard/have heard

4. a. Have you ever lent, b. Have, c. lent, d. paid

5. a. Have you ever climbed, b. never have, c. Have, d. climbed,

e. ’ve never heard of/have never heard of

6. a. Have you ever made, b. have, c. ’ve made/have made

7. a. Have you ever risked, b. have, c. started, d. ’ve lost/ have lost/lost

8. a. Have you ever saved, b. haven’t/have not, c. has, d. ran

9. a. Have you ever had, b. went, c. fell, d. broke

10. a. Have you ever run, b. ran

ABOUT YOU p. 48

Answers will vary.

2.7 The Present Perfect with Yet and Already

EXERCISE 10 p. 49

1. a. Has, b. yet, c. came, d. hasn’t had, e. yet

2. a. finished, b. yet, c. already

3. a. seen, b. yet/already, c. yet, d. already, e. made

4. a. thought, b. yet, c. already, d. went  5. a. ’ve/have, b. already

EXERCISE 11 p. 50

1. looked  2. yet  3. haven’t  4. yet  5. already  6. Both are correct.

7. I did  8. Both are correct.  9. never have  10. Have you ever tried

11. haven’t  12. Have  13. have  14. Have you  15. haven’t  16. yet

2.8 The Present Perfect with Lately,

Recently, and Just

EXERCISE 12 pp. 51–52

1. a. Have you read, b. haven’t had/have not had, c. ’ve just finished/have just finished/just finished, d. have become

2. a. Have you taken, b. haven’t/have not, c. ’ve been/have been, d. Have you done, e. haven’t/have not, f. has, g. went

3. a. has had/has, b. have left, c. Have conditions improved, d. have, e. has started

4. a. ’ve just read/have just read  5. a. have been, b. have tried

ABOUT YOU p. 52

Answers will vary.

EXERCISE 13 p. 53

1. Have you seen it yet  2. saw  3. Have you ever dreamed

4. ’ve thought/have thought  5. Have you seen  6. yet

7. ’ve just changed/have just changed/just changed

2.9 The Present Perfect with No Time

Mentioned

EXERCISE 14 p. 53

1. a. has photographed, b. ’s won/has won, c. hasn’t been/ has not been, d. ’s given/has given

2. a. have discovered  3. a. has walked, b. ’s entertained/has entertained

4. a. has attracted, b. has saved, c. haven’t taken/have not taken

Reading 3

COMPREHENSION p. 55

1. F  2. T  3. T

THINK ABOUT IT p.55

Answers will vary.

2.10 The Present Perfect with Repetition

from Past to Present

EXERCISE 15 p. 56

1. has written  2. has done  3. ’s led/has led  4. ’s spent/has spent

5. have disappeared  6. have died  7. have reached  8. has gone

9. have appeared  10. ’s experienced/has experienced  11. has, taken

EXERCISE 16 p. 56

1. won  2. has won  3. led  4. ’ve lost/have lost

5. ’s written/has written  6. reached  7. have reached  8. has climbed

9. climbed  10. reached  11. was  12. has performed  13. crossed

EXERCISE 17 p. 57

1. Have you ever heard  2. ’s directed/has directed  3. worked

4. was even  5. ’s made/has made  6. had to  7. became  8. formed

9. ’s led/has led  10. ’s visited/has visited  11. ’s worked/has worked

12. is

2.11 The Present Perfect with Continuation

from Past to Present

EXERCISE 18 pp. 58–59

1. a. has worked, b. since  2. a. have been, b. for  3. a. has always had

4. a. Since, b. ’s changed/has changed  5. a. have tried, b. since

6. a. Since, b. has climbed  7. a. since, b. ’s led/has led

8. a. long, b. has Cameron been

EXERCISE 19 p. 59

1. ’ve been  2. Ø  3. ’ve probably read/have probably read

4. ’ve taken/have taken  5. ’ve had/have had  6. have you been 7. since

8. Have  9. have  10. ’ve wanted/have wanted  11. since

12. ’ve never been/have never been  13. ’ve tried/have tried  14. Ø

15. started  16. ’ve become/have become

ABOUT YOU p. 60

1. Has, changed  2. Have, started  3. have, learned, have never done

4. ever done  5. always wanted, has ever done  6. ever had

ABOUT YOU p. 60

Answers will vary.

Reading 4

COMPREHENSION p. 61

1. T  2. F  3. T

THINK ABOUT IT p. 62

Answers will vary.

2.12 The Present Perfect Continuous

EXERCISE 20 p. 63

1. has been making, since  2. ’s been exploring/has been exploring, for

3. ’s been working/has been working  4. has been studying, for

5. ’s been learning/has been learning  6. For, have been melting

7. has been performing, for  8. have been learning

9. has been studying, for  10. have been climbing, since

EXERCISE 21 pp. 63–64

1. a. have you been learning, b. For  2. a. has he been working, b. For

3. a. have you been thinking, b. Since

4. a. long has she been climbing, b. For

5. a. long has he been making, b. been, c. for, d. taking, e. ’s

been/has been

6. a. been, b. have, c. ’ve been telling/have been telling, d. for

7. a. ’ve been reading/have been reading

ABOUT YOU p. 65

Answers will vary.

2.13 The Present Perfect, the Present Perfect

Continuous, and the Simple Past

EXERCISE 22 p. 66

1. is  2. has been working  3. since  4. has been exploring  5. for

6. arrived  7. went  8. have been going  9. went  10. were

11. has been improving  12. treated  13. has seen  14. takes  15. is

16. for  17. has been helping

EXERCISE 23 p. 66

1. has been climbing  2. ’s done/has done  3. ’s made/has made

4. began  5. went 6. ’s increased/has increased/’s been increasing/has been increasing  7. used  8. made 9. did  10. ’s appeared/has appeared

11. was

EXERCISE 24 p. 67

1. has been climbing, for, ‘s climbed/has climbed

2. ’s been preparing/has been preparing

3. ’ve not seen/haven’t seen, have, I haven’t

4. ’ve taken/have taken, in, took

5. has helped/has been helping, have been  6. has been working, since

7. ’ve been talking/have been talking, for

REVIEW p. 69

1. haven’t seen  2. in/for  3. have you been  4. ’ve had/have had

5. haven’t had/have not had  6. ’ve been taking/have been taking

7. have you been doing  8. started  9. ’ve jumped/have jumped

10. ’ve never even thought/have never even thought

11. ’ve always wanted/have always wanted  12. since  13. talked

14. learned  15. Have you ever had  16. ’ve had/have had

17. ’ve worked/have worked/’ve been working/have been  working

18. For  19. ’ve been trying/have been trying  20. taught  21. was

22. ’ve been knitting/have been knitting  23. since  24. ’ve made/have made

EDITING PRACTICE pp. 70–71

1. done  2. C  3. for  4. ’s inspired/has inspired 5. ’s taught/has taught

6. C  7. studied  8. have finished  9. C  10. been 11. were  12. C

13. ’s always been/has always been  14. C  15. C  16. told

17. recently decided  18. C  19. learned  20. C

21. ’s been studying/has been studying  22. C  23. C  24. C  25. C

26. ’s never thought/has never thought  27. C