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Present Tenses: Present Simple or Present Continous/Progressive?

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
1) The glazier in the workshop. (to work)
2) Look! He a huge piece of glass. (to carry)
3) Glaziers usually different tools such as pliers, a glazier's rule, or a glazier's hammer. (to use)
4) Sometimes glass surface flaws. (to have)
5) Right now there different types of glass on the workbench: laminated glass and silica glass. (to lie)
6) The glass artist currently working in the painting workshop the glass vase. (to stipple)
7) The glass in the furnace right now. (to heat)
8) Janet has a very special profession: She a decorative glass worker. (to be)
9) Anna the glass with the engraving wheel at the moment. (to cut)
10) Occasionally Peter glass with acid. (to etch)
11) Look! The glass into a gob in the oven. (to melt)
12) Normally one glass with a grinding machine. (to grind)
13) Grinding with grindstones or abrasive belts. (to function)
15) There is Keira: She a ruby glass right now. (to groove)
16) In our school we a sandblasting machine. (to have)
17) A: What is Brad doing there? B: He for the protective gloves.
18) Nigel frequently hollow glass objects for his decorative work. (to use)
19) I never wedge cuts, I bullet cuts. To my mind they much nicer. (to do, to prefer, to look)
20) To finish this glass piece, I a soldering gun and molten tin. (to need)