IT TAKES

We use it takes to express a period of time necessary to complete some action. It

takes is always followed by an infinitive.
It takes me an hour to prepare my homework.
It took us five days to reach home.
It will take you several hours to finish that work.
Change each of the sentences below so that it begins with It takes ......., It
took ......., or It will take .........., as required.
1. I walked to the station in ten minutes.
(It took ten minutes to walk to the station.)
2. I finished my exercises in one hour
3. She learned to speak English well in only one year.
4. I wrote my composition in thirty minutes.
5. The train went around the mountain in three hours.
6. They finished the bridge in one year.
7. The cable reached him in two days.
8. We walk to school every moring in about fifteen minutes.
9. You`ll get there in about an hour.
10. She`ll take all afternoon to prepare the meal.
11. But we`ll eat it in only fifteen or twenty minutes.
12. I wash and dress each morning in less than fifteen minutes.
13. Helen puts on her makeup in half an hour.
14. He learned to swim in just a few days.
15. I`ll run to the corner store and get what you need in just two or three minutes.