O’zbekiston respublikasi ichki ishlar vazirligi akademiya m. A. Rustamov ingliz tili darslik

won’t be time tomorrow. (there won’t be = there will not
be) 
 
 

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EXERCISES 
 
9.12. Open the brackets. Use the correct form of the verb: 
1. There (is / was) a large table in my room now.
2. There (are / were) three windows in my classroom.
3. There (are / were) three windows in my classroom when I 
studied at the Academy.
4. There (are / were) five pens in my bag. Now there (are, were) 
only two.
5. There (was / will be) a school here in 1905.
6. There (are, were) many children in the park yesterday.
7. There (aren’t, weren’t) many interesting articles in the 
newspaper. 
9.13. Change the sentences using there was / were.
1. The book was on the desk.
There was a book on the desk. 
2. The pencils were in the box. ....................................................... 
3. The picture was on the wall. ....................................................... 
4. The chair was near the wall. ....................................................... 
5. The student was in the room. ..................................................... 
6. A piece of chalk was on the blackboard. .................................. 
7. A judge was at the Magistrate’s Court. ...................................... 
9.14. Make the sentence negative or interrogative.
1. There were students’ tables along the wall.
There were not any 
tables along the wall.
2. There was a blackboard on the wall. ........................................... 
3. There was a map on the wall. ...................................................... 
4. There were some chairs in the classroom. ................................... 
5. There were many exercise-books on the table. ............................ 
6. There were many flowers at the windows. .................................. 
7. There was some chalk on the table. .............................................