Questões de Inglês - Presente simples | Simple present para Concurso

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.

Once upon a time there ____(is) a little prince who _____ (live) on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who _____(have) a need for a friend. He _____ (find) a fox who ____ (ask) him to be _____ (tame).

Select the CORRECT answer.

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.

James ______ got only one car (have).

My parents ______ in New York City (live).

She is ______ at the moment (dance).

Paul ______ to play in the best league (want).

Select the CORRECT answer.

“Beginning next week, the Adjutant and I will be making¹ a series of snap inspections of section barrack-rooms. […] Just ordinary soldierly cleanliness and tidiness is all I want.” (Kingsley Amis)

“And I thought then, Just living long enough wipes out the problems. Puts you in a select club. […] Everybody’s face will have suffered², never just yours.” (Alice Munro)

“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise³ to the heights you are no doubt capable of.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)

In the sentences above, the tenses of the verb forms in bold are, respectively,

“I have often thought¹ what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

“She had had² to change her limbs. She had had to get limbs that ordinary people have and walk, but every step she took, agonizing pain! This is what she was willing³ to go through, to get the prince. So, I thought she deserved more than death on the water.” (Alice Munro)

In terms of verb tenses, the verb forms in bold in these sentences are, respectively, in the

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quote respectively with the simple past of the verb TO HUM, the past perfect of the verb TO FORGET, and the simple past of the verb TO BE.

“On his desk, a huge old electric typewriter ______¹ — he ______² to turn it off. He was among the many word-processing holdouts in the literary world. The typescript ______ ³ right there, in a neatly squared-off pile, six hundred pages — long, but not vast.” (Ian McEwan)