UNIT – IV GUIDED COMPOSITION – THE PAST TENSE

 Make sentences with the following word groups taking the clue from examples.

I. Ex: The doctor / give / prescription / yesterday

Ans: The doctor gave me a prescription yesterday.
1. My brother / lend / ten rupees / last week
2. She / tell / time / five minutes ago
3. The author / show / manuscript / February
4. My father / give / bicycle / last Christmas
5. She / read / story / last night

II. Ex: put on / old suit? / silly idea

Ans: Why did you put on such an old suit? What a silly idea!
1. buy / small dog? / funny animal
2. write / long letter? / waste of time
3. tell / obvious lie? / awful loss
4. throw away / valuable book? / awful loss
5. get / expensive watch? / nice present

III. Ex: She / grocer’s / meet

Ans: She was looking for a grocer’s when I met her.
1. He / baker’s / find
2. They / doctor / see
3. The nurse / chemist’s / notice
4. My aunt / florist’s / come across
5. The soldiers / officer / meet

IV. Ex: wait / bus / rain / stop

Ans: While I was waiting for the bus, the rain stopped.
1. have / lunch / door-bell / ring
2. sleep / upstairs / house / catch fire
3. drive / to Simla / engine / stop
4. give / lecture / lights / go out
5. listen to / radio / kettle / boil over

V. Ex: manager / leave / telephone

Ans: The manager had already left when I telephoned.
1. bus / go / arrive
2. patient / die / call
3. accident / occur / appear
4. dance / start / enter
5. whether / improve / leave
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VI. Ex: month / monsoon / struck / Bombay

Ans: By the end of the month the monsoon had struck Bombay.
1. year / builders / finish / twelve houses
2. week / company / dismiss / one hundred workmen
3. period / newspapers / publish / whole story
4. summer / farmers / harvest / whole crop
5. century / empire / lose / American colonies

VII. Ex: his death / drink / too much

Ans: At the time of his death he had been drinking too much.
1. her examination / work / too hard
2. their discovery / experiment / for ten years
3. my collapse / lose / a lot of weight
4. her marriage / work / as a teacher
5. our accident / drive / for twelve hours non-stop

VIII. Ex: He / enjoy / a great deal

Ans: He enjoyed himself a great deal
1. She / admire / too much
2. The cat / wash / carefully
3. He / kill / stupidly
4. We / hurt / badly
5. They / blame / unnecessarily

IX. Ex: do / police / arrest

Ans: What had you been doing when the police arrested you?
1. say / reporter / find
2. dream of / alarm-clock / wake
3. work on / telegram / interrupt
4. write / teacher / stop
5. hide / children / catch

X. Ex: I / think / friend / attempt / all the answers

Ans: I thought that my friend had attempted all the answers.
1. She / know / brother / go / to work overseas
2. They / guess / colleague / become / a monk
3. I / think / sister / catch / the wrong train
4. He / expect / friend / finish / the project work
5. We / think / relatives / reach / the destination