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1 Change To The Past Tense: Practice

The document provides examples of changing verbs from present to past tense when discussing past actions or situations. It gives sample sentences with verbs like "work", "do", and "be" changed from present to past tense by adding "-ed" or changing conjugation. It then provides 20 additional sentences for the reader to practice changing to past tense themselves by considering whether the situation or action being discussed is in the present or past.

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1 Change To The Past Tense: Practice

The document provides examples of changing verbs from present to past tense when discussing past actions or situations. It gives sample sentences with verbs like "work", "do", and "be" changed from present to past tense by adding "-ed" or changing conjugation. It then provides 20 additional sentences for the reader to practice changing to past tense themselves by considering whether the situation or action being discussed is in the present or past.

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Practice

1 Change to the Past tense


Example: He is a good pupil: he always works seriously.
From the present, the verb and time expressions need to change when
necessary.

He was a good pupil, he always worked seriously


Example: What’s he doing now? He is working.
What was he doing? He was working.

(What did he do? He worked)


Example: He doesn’t work at all this week.

He didn’t work at all last week

(1) What are you going to do now? I am going to work.

(2) This result is good: you worked well today.

(3) He has never worked before he left school.

(4) I always work while you are sleeping.

(5) I’ll pay you more if you work more.

(6) You work more efficiently when you are more attentive.

(7) I would have certainly worked more if I had been encouraged.

(8) I think working for this firm is not very exciting.

(9) What are you doing this afternoon? I have to work.

(10) He doesn’t work, does he?

(11) You needn’t work if you don’t like it.


(12) I would rather work than stay at home.

(13) I wonder why my parents always want me to work.

(14) It’s no use working if it doesn’t interest you.

(15) He goes on working until he is too tired to continue.

(16) If he works a lot in the morning he is going to watch television all the afternoon.

(17) Understanding written Chinese looks very complicated to all my friends.

(18) There’s no possibility of going to work and after that starting the football training
session.

(19) He likes carrying his rucksack everywhere even when it is so heavy.

(20) She looks incredibly fit and healthy is spite of her last surgery.

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