EXERCISE G2-11Verb tense and mood
Click on the correct verb form in the parentheses.
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Because Mark (picked / had picked) her up the previous evening, she assumed he would appear the next evening as well.
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2 of 10
Ken recommended that Juan (remain / remains) on the beginner slopes for at least a week.
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If it (was / were) only the two of us, we could afford the trip; but we cannot afford airfare for the whole family.
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4 of 10
Before Kate was three years old, she knew that there (are / were) one hundred pennies in one dollar.
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Our neighbor stood at the door looking so pale and ashen that we thought he (just saw / had just seen) a ghost.
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Toni could be an excellent student if she (wasn’t / weren’t) so distracted by problems at home.
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7 of 10
Craig’s own mother asked that the principal (expel / expels) him from school.
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8 of 10
By 8:00 a.m., everyone in the family (left / had left) for work or school.
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9 of 10
In the feminist rewriting of Sleeping Beauty, the girl (is / was) not awakened by a prince.
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10 of 10
I would like (to tour / to have toured) Europe after graduation, but I had to go to work immediately.
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