Exercise 4. Supply The Past Indefinite, The Past Continuous or The Past Perfect Simple.

1. She (to wear) a silk dress. The skirt (to be) beautifully pleated and the sleeves long; it (to make) a faint rustle as she (to stroll) about the room. (T. Capote)

2. The night (to turn) colder still, and our breath (to form) clouds in the twilight air. (C.P.Snow)

3. It (to be) the Portuguese bookseller’s wife who (to bring) her the kitten. Why she (to choose) that particular one of the litter of six born (to be) obvious. (G Schmitt)

4. She (to face) me again. Then I (to know) why she (to avert) her eyes. She (to fight back) tears. (C.P.Snow)

5. She (to be) in the bar nearly all evening. The blood (to flush) in her pale face, purple veins (to appear) on her cheeks. (M.Dickens)

6. After I (to dress) I (to go) up to see Roy. When I (to enter) his room, he (to study) his image in the mirror. (C.P. Snow)

7. It (to appear) that Jonathan (to be offered) a post as assistant lecturer in English literature in one of the new northern universities. (P.Bentley)

8. After they (to change) into bathing suits, they (to stand) at the edge of the water. It (to be) dangerous to swim in the river at this point and the both (to know) it. The river (to be) full of rapids and the bottom (to be covered) with jagged rocks. (E Hemingway)

9. Janet just (to get) a divorce and (to look for) a new place to live, since the house next door (to be) for rent, Min (to suggest) it to Janet. She (to take) it. (J Finney)

10. When my lips (to part), and (to shape) some words that (to be) without sound, I (to force) myself to tell him, that I (to be chosen) to succeed to some property. (Ch Dickens)

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