Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Alex's special

Use the correct tense of the verb.
1
The shaman had his arm (bite) by a snake
believing this will transfer to him some of
the snake's power.
2
The farmer would have (harvest) the crop
yesterday had not the combine (break) down.
3
He is so parsimonious he cannot remember
the last time he has (give) money to the
people who have come knocking at his door.
4
He has become everyone's bete noire
that nobody wants to be (see) in his company.
5
White water river rafting has (become)
a de rigueur among Cagayan de Oro
visitors that one has not really been to CDO
if he has not (do) the river.
6
Even if Lazarus had (want) to, he could not
have (aid) the rich man because of a wide
chasm that separated them.
7
Modesty is all but (forget) in the orgy of eating
and drinking that accompanies each
bacchanalian feast.
8
Middle East moolah has (raise) the standard
living in this community of ramshackle huts.
9
The rampaging Huns (leave) in their wake
a swath of destruction.
10
The twins Romulus and Remus were (bear)
of woman but suckled by a she-wolf.
11
With daggers (draw), the two fighters lunged
at each other's throat.
12
The G.I.'s erected a cairn on Mt. Suribachi as
a memorial to all who have (fall) in Iwo Jima.
13
(Tear) away from his Auschwitz-bound
parents, the Jewish boy was taken in by a
kindly German couple.
14
Bucephalus had never been (ride), until the
strapping youth Alexander (broke) it.
15
While his brothers and sisters lead normal
lives, the poor gamete-- product of in vitro
fertilization-- has (know) only life in a
Petri dish.

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