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A. Put all the verbs in this text into the PRESENT tense.

1. Mrs Cable is the richest woman in the city,


but she is also a busybody. She always wants
to know what everybody is doing. When
she needs something she rings a bell and a
servant come. One day a
truck stops in front of her house and three
men get out. They are
carrying a large box. Mrs. Cable sees this and
tells her servant, Sam, go and see what the
men are doing. Sam goes out and speaks to the
men but they don't tell him. 2. When he comes
back Mrs. Cable is very angry with him. Next
she sends George to find out. He doesn´t want
to go at first and Mrs. Cable tells him he is
afraid.
When he goes out. The men ignored him when he
says good morning. He tries again but this
time the big man hits him in the stomach and
he falls on the ground. 3. Mrs. Cable sees
all this and came on to the street. The men
take her by the arms and put her in the box.

B. Now do it again, putting all the verbs into the PAST tense.
4. Mrs. Cable was the richest woman in the
city, but she was also a busybody. She always
wanted to know what everybody was doing. When
she needed something she rang a bell and a
servant came. One day a truck stopped in front
of her house and three men got out. They were
carrying a large box. 5. Mrs. Cable saw this
and told her servant, Sam, go and see what the
men were doing. Sam got out and spoke
to the men but they didn´t tell him. When he
came back Mrs. Cable was very angry with him.
Next she sent George to find out. He didn't
wanted to go at first and Mrs. Cable told him
he is afraid. When he went out the men ignored
him. when he said good morning. 6. He
tried again but this time the big man hit him
in the stomach and he fall on the ground. Mrs.
Cable saw all this and came on to the
Street. The men took her by the arms and put
her in the box.
C. Now write the word which is the same in
both tenses - (you
didn't have to change it!)
The word is:go

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