SEQUENCE OF TENSES Exercise 1. Report the spoken words, using the verbs in brackets. Pay
attention to the Sequence of Tenses.
persuade insist beg admit ask announce remind
reply warn claim hope
1. "We have broken the window!" (The children...)
2. "My friend will come to see me" (She ...)
3. "Don't forget to book the hotel" (He...)
4."Please, do visit us some day" (She ...)
5. "I will buy dinner for you as a "thank you" ( My colleague...)
6."1 have made no mistakes in my dictation" (My groupmate...)
7. Please, please, mum, let us play in the playgroung". (The children...)
8. "Has the minister answered your question?" (The prime-minister...)
9. "I am going to resign this month" (The President...)
10. In answer to your question, the club accepts members of all ages. (The
manager...)
11. You will fall and break your leg. (Mum...)
1. He spent last summer in the country.
2. He didn't spend last summer in the country.
3. Did he spend last summer in the country?
4. Where did he spend last summer?
5. She helped mother yesterday.
6. She did not help mother yesterday.
7. Did she help mother yesterday?
8. How did she help mother yesterday?
9. Kate cooks dinner every day.
10. Kate will cook dinner tomorrow.
11. Kate is cooking dinner now.
12. Kate cooked dinner yesterday.
13. I don't eat ice-cream every day.
14. I am not eating ice-cream now.
15. I will not eat ice-cream tomorrow.
16. I did not eat ice-cream yesterday.
17. Do you go to school every day?
18. Are you going to school now?
19. Will you go to the South next summer?
20. You went abroad last summer.
21.What does your brother do every day?
22. What is your brother doing now?
23. What will your brother do tomorrow?
24. What did your brother do yesterday?