Question 1
A: _____ you _____ to me?
B: Yes, I am.
With you we use are. A question about now is Are you listening…?, and B answers Yes, I am.
Question 2
He _____ a sweatsuit because he _____ to work today. He can have a rest at home.
He goes with is. He is at home and can rest, so he is wearing a sweatsuit because he isn't going to work.
Question 3
A: Where _____ you _____ in the middle of the night?
B: I'm not going anywhere.
With you we use are: Where are you going? B answers with I'm not going.
Question 4
Janice and I are at the mall now. We _____ some clothes for our children.
We goes with are: We are buying. The word now shows the action is happening at the moment.
Question 5
A: _____ we _____ the right battery?
B: Yes, definitely.
With we we use are + verb-ing: Are we using…? Not Are / use, because we need the -ing form.
Question 6
Gerard _____ at the bus stop. He _____ for the bus.
Gerard is at the bus stop tells us where he is. He is waiting tells us what he is doing now.
Question 7
_____ aren't taking photographs of statues in the museum because it is forbidden.
aren't goes with a plural subject. The tourists is plural. The other options are about one person, so they need isn't.
Question 8
They _____ speak French well, but they _____ to the French shop owner right now.
They can't speak French well is about ability. They are talking is about what is happening right now.
Question 9
A: What _____ doing?
B: I don't know. Maybe _____. The lights in his room are off.
The light is off in his room, so we talk about he. The question is What is he doing? and the answer is Maybe he is sleeping.
Question 10
Michael and Daniel _____ a lot these days, but they _____ their goods.
Michael and Daniel are two people, so we use are travelling. These days shows something happening around now. But shows a problem: they can't sell their goods.
Question 11
Alan and Eric _____ in Spain now, but they _____ their holiday there because of the rain.
They are in Spain now tells us where they are. Because of the rain shows a problem, so they aren't enjoying their holiday.
Question 12
A: Who _____ a shower in the bathroom?
B: Jason is in the bathroom. _____ the bathtub.
Who goes with is: Who is having a shower? B's answer is a statement, so we write He is cleaning, not the question form Is he cleaning.
Question 13
A: _____ your vacuum cleaner? I _____ my bedroom.
B: Sure, you can.
To ask for permission we say Can I use…? B's answer Sure, you can shows this. I am cleaning tells us what the speaker is doing now.
Question 14
Hilda and I _____ in the garden. We _____ the flowers.
Hilda and I means we, so we use are: We are in the garden. We are watering the flowers.
Question 15
A: _____?
B: You are mimicking Uncle Victor.
B says what A is doing: You are mimicking Uncle Victor. So A asked What am I doing?
Question 16
A: What _____ you _____ nowadays?
B: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. It is a very good book.
With you we use are + verb-ing: What are you reading nowadays? B answers with the name of a book.
Question 17
A: _____ the right notes, Mr Clark?
B: Yes, son. Just go on. _____ following you.
The boy asks about himself: Am I playing the right notes? Mr Clark answers I am following you. Not I can, because can is not followed by -ing.
Question 18
A: Where _____ spending their holiday this summer?
B: They _____ a summer house in Miami, so I think they will go there.
Their tells us the question is about they: Where are they spending their holiday? They have got a summer house means they own one.
Question 19
A: _____ the dog sleeping?
B: Yes, it is, and _____ a lot these days.
The dog means it, so we use is: Is the dog sleeping? In B's answer we need a statement, it is sleeping, not the question form is it sleeping.
Question 20
Alex _____ some old wooden boxes, and he _____ them at the moment.
Alex has got some boxes means he owns them. At the moment shows an action happening now: he is painting them.
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