Latihan soal 12 tenses

1. EXCERISES
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense forms.
A. Dear Arin,
Your 1. (be) free to come here on Saturday next at 8.00? My brother Paul 2. (come) and 3.
(bring) a friend of his called Tom Edwards. You 4. (not meet) Tom but I 5. (think) you 6.
(like) him. He is an assistant stage manager at the Gate Theatre and 7. (be able) to tell you
about the actors. Paul says Tom 8. (receive) hardly any salary and often. 9. (not get) enough
to eat, so he 10. (ask) me to have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for dinner, with apple
dumpling to follow. He probably 11. (ring) up between now and Saturday, to say that it 12.
(be) a good idea to start with a substantial soup, such as oxtail!. I 13. (know) tou 14. (not
usually eat) heavy three-course meals of this type, but I 15. (hope) the conversation 16. (not
be) so heavy. Anyway, come of you 17. (be able).
Love,
Marry
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B. By noon little Paddy 1. (miss) for two hours; his mother 2. (search) for him frantically but she
3. (not find) him, so of course she 4. (still, look) for him. After breakfast he 5. (play) in back
garden, where he 6. (usually, be allowerd) to play, while his mother 7. (work) in kitchen.
Suddenly, when she 8. (look) out of the window, she 9. (find) Paddy 10. (disappear) as he 11.
(always play) tricks, she 12. (not be) upset. However, she 13. (go) into the garden to see where
he 14. (hide). When she 15. (search) the garden thoroughy, she had to admit that Paddy 16.
(vanish). She 17. (explore) the front gate, but her search there 18. (be no better rewarded). The
postman and the milkman, going on their rounds, 19. (report) that they 20. (not see) Paddy.
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C. I 1. (walk) along a lonely path at night. Everything around me 2. (look) strange and new. I 3.
(cannot) see clearly because it 4. (be) very dark. The wind 5. (blow) strongly and I 6. (can)
see the shadows of swaying trees. I 7. (have) feeling that I 8. (be followed). I 9. (look) behind
but there 10. (be) no one. I 11. (become) very frightened and started to run. Footsteps 12.
(seem) to follow me. Suddenly I 13. (slip) and 14. (fall).
I 15. (wake) up and 16. (find) myself in bed. I 17. (realize) that it was only a dream. In the
morning, I 18. (tell) my brothers about it and they 19. (laugh) overit. They 20. (tease) me until
I 21. (be ashamed) of myself. If I 22. (know) that it was only a dream, I would not have been
so frightened.
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