Unit I. Appearance and character grammar: complex object. Adverbial clauses of time

TENSE AND VOICE REVISION


Ex. 81. Use the verbs in brackets in the proper tense form.

Louise was making a new start. She finally … (leave) work and … (renovate) the house. She and her husband, Bob, … (live) in their large house for 25 years and it always … (be) a very happy, though slightly untidy, family home. Now the last of their children … (leave) and they could, at last, afford to renovate the house.

Louise … (decide) to go to an auction and buy some antique furniture. In the corner of the auction room she … (find) a beautiful Edwardian wardrobe with a large oval mirror in the middle of the door.
She still … (imagine) how the wardrobe … (look) in her quest room when a man behind her … (ask) if she … (be) all right. “Oh, yes. I’m fine. I just … (look) at the wardrobe.”
The man … (tell) Louise that if she … (want) to buy the wardrobe she should come the next morning at ten. The next day Louise … (buy) it.
While Louise … (dust) the inside of the wardrobe, she … (find) an envelope, grimy with age. Louise … (open) the envelope and … (begin) to read.
My dearest Emily,
If you … (read) this it must be because I … (lose) my life. I am prepared now to go off to war, although the thought … (fill) me with horror. It is bad enough to be apart from you, and from my own dear family, but I … (do) this for the King and country…
The author of the letter promised to love Emily forever and asked her to marry another man if he was killed.
Tears … (fall) from Louise’s eyes as she … (put) the letter aside. Then she … (smile). The letter was unopened. Louise … (hope) that the young man … (get) through the war and …. (return) to Emily.
WRITING: COMPARISON ( A ? B )


Ex. 82. We can compare a different number of objects or people. Study the examples paying attention to the words in bold type, their position, correlation with the verb, articles, etc.