Exam 15: Fixed-Form Helping Verbs and Verb Problems

For each blank in the following sentences, select the present tense will or the past tense would. -Tomorrow Tom ________ give you a copy of his blueprints.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -It was the morning of April 18, 1906. Alfred Hunt ________ peacefully in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

For each blank in the following sentences, select the present tense will or the past tense would. -Hans ___________ answer your question while I open the windows.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -After thirty minutes of delicate work, Dr. Jacobs _________ able to mend the bird's torn wing.

Select the present tense helping verb can or the past tense helping verb could for the blank in each sentence. -We ____________________ have sold our house in the city and moved to the country.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -Some people __________ screaming children while others struggled under loads of furniture other valuable objects.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -They __________ for a shelter in the Swiss Alps. Monks of the shelter of Saint Bernard used these dogs in rescue patrols.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -Buildings reeled and ___________ to the ground.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -For example, if _______________ on a Friday, she writes "Study for history test" on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday before that Friday.

Select the infinitive form of each of the following verbs. -threw

Select the correct past tense form of each verb. Some verbs are regular; others are irregular. -We _______________________ (move) from the Dominican Republic to New York when I was ten years old.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -She also uses a technique called "backward planning," which ________ recording all of the tasks she must complete prior to a due date.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -No, they _________ . sophisticated electronic devices like iPads.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -Like Jada, many people ___________ out that they could accomplish much more when they use these time management tools.

For each blank in the following sentences, select the present tense will or the past tense would. -When you graduate, you ______________ find a good job.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -Another tremor __________the city twenty-five more seconds.

For each blank in the following sentences, select the present tense will or the past tense would. -If you sit on the log, I __________ take your picture.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -As Muriel inspected the wings of the injured bird more closely, she ________ that there was a slight tear on the top of the left wing.

Select the sentence written in the passive voice.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each blank, select the correct verb form. -Later, he learned that the great San Francisco earthquake ________ 520 city blocks and had killed more than seven hundred people.