Questões

Complete the sentence below.

"I X the exam if I Y hard."

Mark the CORRECT alternative that corresponds to X and Y respectively.

A. Read the following excerpt from the book The Great Gatsby and complete with the missing verbs.

“By seven o’clock the orchestra _______________, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums. The last swimmers ______________ in from the beach now and _______________ up-stairs; the cars from New York _______________ five deep in the drive […]” (FITZGERALD, 2011, p. 32-33).

Source: https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/7935/Gatsby_PDF_FullText.pdf Access on March, 20th 2023

Look at the sentences and choose the alternative that presents the CORRECT TENSE: 

“I’m contacting you to inform that my sister, Heather, and her family ____________ next Friday as part of their journey around the country. By the time they get here they ____________ to Wisconsin.”

     “I’___________ to Mr. Pitt and tell him about Tom’s new house.”

(THOMSON, A. J., MARTINET, A. V. A pratical english gramar. New York: Oxford. 1995, p. 192)

Analyze the sentence and choose the correct verb tenses respectively:

“Separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have captured a pilot from New Zealand and are holding him hostage after setting fire to his plane, the group said in a statement.”