Question 1

The 15 underlined verbs in the text should all be in the present simple tense. You have to
rewrite the 15 incorrect verbs and correct them in the space given below.

The story happens in Alaska in the nineteenth

century. The main characters is a man and
his dog. The man is a prospector who
has come to Alaska to looking for gold.
The dog is clever but the man is
not; he know how dangerous Alaska can
be. At the beginning of the story the
man is going back to camp. After a short
time he stops and eat his lunch.
Soon he feel very cold and makes a
fire. When he was warm again, he continues
to walk back to camp. Suddenly he is falling
in a pool of water. He have to
light a fire before his feet freeze. But
he makes big mistake: he lights the fire
under a tree. The snow melts and fell
on the fire; this puts it out. The
man cannot lights the fire again, so he
decides to killing the dog, but he are not
strong enough. He start to run back
to camp but he falls two times. Finally
he is no more strength and he lies
in the snow. After a short time, he dead
The dog goes back to camp alone.

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 Question 2
The 15 underlined verbs in the text should all be in the past simple tense. You have to rewrite
the 15 incorrect verbs that are in the present tense and correct them in the space given below.

Mrs Cable was the richest woman in the

city, but she is also a busybody. She
always wanted to know what everybody is doing.
When she needs something she rings a bell
and a servant came. One day a truck
stops in front of her house and three
men got out. They are carrying a large
box. Mrs. Cable sees this and told her
servant, Sam, to go and see what the
men were doing. Sam goes out and spoke
to the men but they don't tell him.
When he came back Mrs. Cable is very
angry with him. Next she sent George to
find out. He didn't want to go at
first and Mrs. Cable told him he is
afraid. When he goes out the men ignored
him when he said good morning. He tries
again but this time the big man hit
him in the stomach and he fell on
the ground. Mrs. Cable sees all this
and came on to the street. The
men take her by the arms and put
her in the box.

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