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Grammar Exercises 1

The document contains an English grammar exercise about changing sentences to different tenses and rewriting direct speech as indirect speech. It provides example sentences and asks students to change the tense or restructure the sentences. The exercise focuses on changing sentences involving future intentions or plans to the past tense and rewriting direct speech statements about intentions as indirect speech. It also includes exercises using perfect modal verbs like must have, might have, and should have.

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Grammar Exercises 1

The document contains an English grammar exercise about changing sentences to different tenses and rewriting direct speech as indirect speech. It provides example sentences and asks students to change the tense or restructure the sentences. The exercise focuses on changing sentences involving future intentions or plans to the past tense and rewriting direct speech statements about intentions as indirect speech. It also includes exercises using perfect modal verbs like must have, might have, and should have.

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Extra Grammar Exercises

(Unit 6, page 64)


Yorcy Niño Castilla
1. Change each sentence to the past tense.
1.1 She’s going to go to the movies.
She was going to go to the movies.

1.2. Are you going to study economics?


Were you going to study economics?

1.3. My friend is going to speak to the manager about the bad service in the hotel.
My friend was going to speak to the manager about the bad service in the hotel.

1.4. Are there going to be a lot of people at the meeting?


Would there be a lot of people at the meeting?

1.5. This is going to be my last car.


This would be my last car

1.6. Who is going to teach this class?


Who would teach this class?

1.7. Medicine is going to be my career field.


Medicine would be my career field.

1.8. Where is Lee going to study nursing?


Where was Lee going to study nursing?
2. Change each sentence to the past tense.

2.1. We think we will become vegetarians.


We thought we would become vegetarians.

2.2. Sally believes she will marry Tom.


Sally believed she going to marry Tom.

2.3. Our teacher believes we will all pass the test.


Our teacher believed we going to all pass the test.

2.4. They say they are going to study medicine.


They said they were going to study medicine.

2.5. The doctor says the baby is going to be born in May.


They doctor said the baby was going to be born in May.

2.6. No one believes the restaurant will be good.


No one believed the restaurant would be good.

3. Rewrite each direct speech statement about intentions and plans as indirect speech.
Make tense changes.

3.1. She said, “I am going to be a chemist.”


She said she was going to be a chemist.

3.2. We told them, “We’re going to see the movie on Friday.”


We told them, “We were going to see the movie on Friday.”
3.3. I said, “Mark is going to be sorry he married Jane.”
I said, “Mark was going to be sorry he married Jane.”

3.4. She asked, “Who is going to make dinner?”


She asked, “Who was going to make dinner?”

3.5. My family told me, “You are going to love New York.”
My family told me, “You would love New York.”

4. Complete each statement.


1. We thought we would be late, but.
a. you won’t b. we weren’t c. we were d. we wouldn’t
2. The newspaper said it was going to rain, but.
a. it isn’t b. it didn’t c. it would d. it did
3. I believed she was telling the truth, but.
a. she didn’t b. she wasn’t c. she is d. I wasn’t
4. He thought everything would be OK, but.
a. it will b. it was c. it wasn’t d. he was

LESSON 2 Perfect modals

1. Complete the perfect modals in the statements.


1.1 You must have tried (try) peanut butter when you were in the U.S.
Everyone eats it there.

1.2. They might not have gone (go) to the play last night. It was playing near their
apartment.
1.3. Jean and Ralph shouldn’t have bought (buy) the SUV. It uses too much gas.

1.4. Who could have been (be) at the meeting? Let’s find out and call them to hear what
happened.

1.5. We should have told (tell) Raquel about the weather report before she left.

1.6. They couldn’t have seen (see) the movie. It didn’t open until today.

1.7. I must have broken (break) the coffeemaker. It doesn’t work anymore.

1.8. Molly would have liked (like) the concert. It’s too bad she didn’t go.

2. Complete each statement with the correct modal.


1. You_______________ loved my grandmother. She was so nice!
a. should have b. would have c. could have

2. Ellen __________ studied English because she speaks very well.


a. should have b. may not have c. must have

3. I___________ taken the train instead of this slow bus!


a. could have b. couldn’t have c. must have

4. They were nearby when the big accident happened. They___________ seen it.
a. could not have b. shouldn’t have c. might have

5. I’m sorry I didn’t break up with my boyfriend sooner. I __________been happier.


a. would have b. must have c. couldn’t have
6. They went to class this morning. They ___________known that it was canceled.
a. might have b. must not have c. should not have

7. She definitely wanted to be a physicist, or she ___________ studied physics at the


university.
a. must have b. would have c. wouldn’t have

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