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TASK 1 Highlight the incorrect form in each sentence.

1 Elliot lives in a nice area these days, but he ________________ in a violent neighbourhood
during his teens.
a lived b would live c used to live
1 Hamish has left Claire. She ________________ really upset about it when I saw her.
a felt b would feel c was feeling
2 Just as Melanie ________________ the shop for the evening, somebody arrived and
started banging on the door.
a was due to close b was closing c was bound to
3 An hour before the president ________________ a statement about the economy, the
Central Bank agreed to lend his country more money.
a had made b was going to make c was due to make
4 While he ________________ in France, Peter met the girl he was to marry.
a lived b was living c had lived
5 In his old age, Thomas ________________ the old house just once more and walk along its
corridors.
a would visit b was to visit c used to visit

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TASK 2 Rewrite only the sentences that can be rewritten with would with little or no
change of meaning.

1 Will you please give us your verdict? 

Would you please give us your verdict?
2 Two burglars were climbing out of an upstairs window when the police arrived.
In my opinion, the prison system used to be much fairer during the 1960s and 1970s.
3.Caroline said she wasn’t going to admit anything. 
Caroline said that she wouldn‘t going to admit anything
4.Police officers used to ride bicycles in this area at one time. 
Police officers would have riden bicycles in this area at one time

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TASK 3 Rewrite the text by replacing the underlined past forms. Use each of the
following at least once: used to + infinitive, would + infinitive, was to + infinitive, would
have + past participle, past continuous, past perfect. Sometimes more than one answer
is possible.
Highwaymen
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, armed robbers called ‘highwaymen’ 1 waited for
passing coaches in lonely stretches of heathland or woodland on the roads out of London. After
they
2
stopped a coach by pointing their pistol at the driver, they 3 steal valuables from each
passenger. Before the seventeenth century, the majority of armed robbers 4 were on foot. What
made highwaymen romantic and daring was the fact that they were on horseback. In the middle
of the eighteenth century, more and more people 5 were travelling than ever before, so being a
highwayman
6
became a profitable business. Although the most notorious highwayman of all, a man called
Dick Turpin, 7 was hanged in 1739, it seemed that the highwayman 8 was a fact of life for
generations to come. Of course, this was not the case. Improved roads and policing soon spelled
the end for the highwaymen.

1 Was waiting
2 Would have stopped
3 Used to steal
4 had been
5 had been travelling
6 became
7 had been hanged
8 -
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