Supply the correct tenses of the verbs in bracketsExercise 6: Supply the correct tenses of the verbs in brackets One afternoon, a big wolf (wait) ____________ in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did come along and she (carry) ____________ a basket of food. 'Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?' asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she (be)____________. So the wolf (ask) ____________her where her grandmother lived and the little girl (tell)____________ him and he (disappear)____________ into the wood. When the little girl (open) ____________ the door of her grandmother's house, she (see)___________ that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She (approach)__________ no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she (see)___________ that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look like anybody's grandmother. So the little girl (take) __________ an automatic pistol out of her basket and (shoot) ___________the wolf dead. Exercise 7: Complete this email with either the past simple or the past continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Where alternatives are possible, think about any difference in meaning. I (1. buy) ____________ a new alarm clock the other day in Taylor’s the jewelers, when I actually (2. see) ____________ somebody shoplifting. I’d finished paying for my clock and as I (3. turn) ____________ round, an elderly woman (4. slowly put) ____________ a silver plate into a bag that she (5. carry) ____________. Then she (6. walk) ____________ over to another part of the shop and (7. pick up) ____________ an expensive-looking watch a number of times. When she (8. think) ____________ that nobody (9. look) ____________, she (10. drop) ____________ it into the bag. Before I (11. have) ____________ a chance to tell the staff in the shop, she (12. notice) ____________ that I (13. watch) ____________ her and (14. hurry)___________ out. Unfortunately for her, two police officers (15. walk) ____________ past just at that moment and she (16. run) ____________ straight into them. |