Exercise 2: Replace the infinitives in brackets by the required tense 1. “Hark! How the wind _______________!” (to howl) 2. Dian
a ________________ her music in the drawing room; Mary ________________ . It was a very fine May day, clear, sunny, and breezy.(to practice, to garden). 3. He ________________ not long at table when his land lady brought up a letter that ____________ just ______________ for him. (to sit, to arrive) 4. “O yes, I ______________ back in an hour.” (to be) 5. “I ______________ here for nearly seven years,”he said. (to be). 6. He was not so much suprised to see me as I _____________. (to expect) 7. An old orchard of apple trees just breaking into flower _______________________ down to a stream and along wild meadow. (to stretch) 8. The quests ___________ before the rain began to fall, and they _____ all now assembled in the chief or living room of the dwelling. (to arrive, to be) 9. “And he _______________ my friend ever since,” said Caroline. (to be) 10. “__________ you ever ___________ that way in your walk?” (pass) 11. “Come down to the terrace while I _____________ my breakfast.” (to eat) 12. The ship _______________ against the warf now. (to draw) 13. “It is the first time you ______ away from home? “(to be) 14. “My father and mother _______________ during the war and I ___________ at my Aunt Emily's.” (to be killed, to live) 15. I ________ to Warley on a wet September morning. (come) 16. the big apple tree, lowest in the orchard, ___________ so close that its boughs almost _______________ the water. (to grow, to overhang) 17. Macomber ________________ the opposite bank when he ________ Wilson take hold of his arm. (to watch, to feel) 18. “The water _____________ at last,”he said. (to boil) 19. The sun ___________, and he ____________ homeward. (to set, to turn) 20. The hands on her watch ________ her that five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour _______________. (to tell, to pass). 21. Perhaps Doreen _______ right all the time and she _______ wrong
