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(c) use the required present or past tense forms in the following texts. comment on their use.
- you (go)
"but when you (meet).
? "
"tonight. he (pick)
me up in a bar in the champs elysées and insist)
on taking me to maxim's.
i(have) (4).
a wonderful time, the best! (have)
since we (come)
.
to work in paris."
"i think) .
"well, i did start out with him. but, honestly, petra, he (get)
out with jean-paul tonight? "
boring. so when i (see)
to be really
carlo giving me the high sign 1 (decide)
to go with him instead."
"carlo? it (not/sound)
very french."
"it (not/be)(
he (be) (14) italian. and that (be)
where i (go) (
- to stay in his palazzo, no
he (be) the kind of man i (look) (
for all
my he just (
me off my feet."
"most of the men you (meet) ( seem to sweep you off your feet."
at the end of the week, when there (
. still no telephone call or letter from sara,
petra (wait)
until monsieur and madam charron (go)
out one evening and the children (be)"
safely in bed, then she
(sneak) ( into the study, (
up the phone and
(ask) the operator to give her the number of the palazzo berini in venice.
"hello. (be) (8)
that carlo berini? "
"yes, 1 (be) (9)
count berini." the voice (be) (
authoritative
"my name (be)
petra thornton. we (not/meet)
, but i (be) (
a friend of sara's."
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