Exam 30: Past Tense

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Wings outstretched, they ____ beautiful patterns in the sky.

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. Michele ____ several cartons of books to the pickup truck.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. In the cabin of a docked craft, a slender white-haired man and a woman in a terry cloth robe ____the morning newspaper.

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. T.J. ____ that he would graduate with honors.

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. Toni Morrison ____the first African American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. It ____ only 6 a.m.

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. Neither woman ____ her own earplugs to the meet.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. In May 2007, a Russian reindeer herder named Yuri Khudi finded the remains of a woolly mammoth calf that roamed the snowy Arctic over 40,000 years ago.

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. Amanda ____ rewarding work at Sports Illustrated .

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. Zoological scientists traveled to Siberia and tooked the discovery to the Russian Academy of Science's Zoological Institute where experts carefully preserved the mammoth in a special refrigerator.

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. After he ____ the pie, Chris wondered how many grams of fat it contained.

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. When the media first reported Lyuba's discovery, many people questioned whether cloning the mammoth would be the next step and be concerned about the consequences of resurrecting an extinct species that would have no natural environment and might harbor unknown diseases.