Present Continuous Negative - Test 7

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1. The newspaper may be entirely proper at breakfast time, but assuredly it

_________________ for all day. (read)

2. I __________________ this time with any iridescent ideas. (go in)

3. You see, it ___________________________, eating, then saying grace and going

away-they're always at it! (just/sit down)

4. You know she _________________ very well just now. (feel)

5. He can believe he ___________________ anything. (believe)

6. You ___________________ the truth when you say that you don't understand my
love. (speak)

7. Why do you ask me that, since we ________________? (go)

8. But that sort of thing ________________ the old native strain in the population.
(save)

9. I ___________________ to murder your churchman. (go out)

10. I don't buy the idea that this is the last year of anything, because we
__________________ here tonight about registering temporary gains but ways of
making permanent our successes. (talk)

11. You ________________ away really, we shall all be in the same city. (go)

12. We __________________ you, just asking you to stay. (keep)

13. It ___________________ to my nature to mince matters-I will then tell you in

plain terms, what I think. (accord)

14. They _____________________ for the sacred right of revolution. (contend)

15. At any rate the wind _________________ in this direction. (blow)

16. Does it follow then that, as you are saying so much, you ___________________
at all? (think)
17. I ________________ you to drop his name. (ask)

18. I ____________________ the miracle, for that I cannot do. (explain)

19. It __________________ in a man of your strength to be superstitious, my brave

Porthos. (become)

20. College _________________ you if that is what you are doing. (help)