Ex.45 Troublesome verbs

Follow the directions:

1. Name things that rise.

2. Lift something above your head. Use raised or rose in a sentence to describe that action.

3. Put something on your desktop. Use set or sat in a sentence to describe this action. Then use laid or lay to describe this action.

4. Look at the object on your desktop. What is it doing? Describe its "activity in progress" by using setting or sitting in a sentence. Then use laying or lying in a similar sentence to describe this object.

5. Describe the geographical location of your country by naming at least two countries or bodies of water that border it on the north, south, east, or west. Use lies or lays. For example, Canada (lies/lays?) to the north of the United States.

Ex.46 Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple. Be a detective: read the text very carefully and find one detail which shows that Ms Jane Webb is lying.

At 11:22 p.m. on January 7, 2007, Ms. Jane Webb called the Toronto police to report a suicide. At 11:34 a police car _______(stop) in front of her house, and two policemen ______(get) out of the car. Ms. Webb ______ (put) on a warm coat because it _______ (be) cold and she waited for them in front of the house. She ______ (take) them to the house across the street.

Surprisingly, the door _____ (be) not closed. They entered the house and ______ (find) the dead man. There was a small hole above his right eye, and there was a gun on the floor next to his right hand.

The policemen looked around but they ________ (not touch) anything. They then ______ (leave) the room and __________(tell) Ms. Webb that she _____ (be) a very important witness. They asked her to go to her house and wait for them.

Inspector Greene and a team of experts arrived fifteen minutes later and the investigation __________(begin).

It was almost 2 a.m. when Inspector Greene finally _________ (come) to speak to Ms. Webb. They _____ (sit) at the kitchen table, _______ (drink) a cup of coffee and she _____ (tell) him about the crime.

`I was in this room when I ______ (look) out the window. I ______(see) Mr. James – he turned on the light, walked to his desk, _______ (take) his gun and shot himself in the head. Then I ________ (run) to his house, but all the doors and windows were closed so I _______ (take) a stone and ________ (break) a window on the first floor and I climbed in.

Ms. Webb continued: ` I _____ (go) up the stairs to the study. I turned on the light and I _____(run) to the body, but there was nothing I could do for him. Then I _____ (leave) the house and called the police.

Now she ______ (begin) to tremble. `I'm sorry,' she explained, `Mr. James was also my boss. I work at his company as his accountant, and I know there was a reason for his suicide. The company ____(go) bankrupt, and I feel responsible for this accident because I ______(give) him the bad news, just this morning.'

The inspector looked at her but there was no sympathy in his eyes. He _____ (say), in a very cold voice, `You are going to have to come down to police headquarters with me.'

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