Exam 30: Past Tense

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Joggers ____ advantage of the early morning cool air; they ____ along the well-marked trails in their multicolored sweatsuits.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Fishing parties and canoeists ____off in their boats as they headed south into the bay or paddled northwest into the canals of the Everglades.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. As temperatures rose and falled over thousands of years, the fluctuations damaged Lyuba's cells and rendered her specimen useless for cloning.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. People ____ going early here, too.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. At first, the hunter thinked the body was a reindeer, but when he excavated the carcass and realized it was actually a mammoth, he called local authorities right away.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. A few hardy souls ____ by diving from the dock into the still, cold lagoon water.

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Choose the correct past tense verb. Select the letter of the correct answer. As a young man, Stuart ____ the clarinet, piano, and drums.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. When experts studyed the near-perfect remains, their findings revealed that Lyuba nursed its mother's milk but also swallowed bits of mammoth dung, just as baby elephants do today to build up healthy bacteria in their intestines.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. While scientists continued their work of building a genetic map of the extinct species, Lyuba's remains toured museums worldwide where visitors seed the most perfectly preserved prehistoric animal ever found.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. Despite such challenges, on March 13, 2012, a Siberian research institute with access to mammoth remains signed an agreement with one of the world's most controversial geneticists, Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea. They sayed that they would clone a mammoth together.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Huge brown pelicans ____ on the posts of the dock.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. In contrast, white egrets ____ motionless in the tall grass near the water.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Several folks ____ their eggs and ____ their coffee in the waterfront coffee shop.

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Select the letter of the correct past tense verb. Withered leaves ____ down the deserted streets.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. The remarkable find thrilled scientists, who named the baby mammoth "Lyuba" after the reindeer hunter's wife and plannied a series of experiments to learn more about this extinct species from the Ice Age.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. In the movie Jurassic Park , scientists cloned dinosaurs that then escaped and threatened the safety of their keepers; this story leaded people to wonder if such a thing could happen with Lyuba, but that isn't likely.

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Select the letter of the correct past tense verb. The disappointed contestant ____ reluctantly to his feet.

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Choose the correct past tense verb. Select the letter of the correct answer. In 1992, Barack Obama ____ Michelle Robinson.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. As a morning breeze gusted inland off the bay, buzzards, terns, and gulls ____ the air currents overhead.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. The day ____ early at Flamingo in Everglades National Park.