It Takes Exercises in English

IT TAKES We use it takes to express a period of time necessary to complet some action. It take is always followed by an infinitives. It takes me an hour to prepare my homework. It took us five days to reach home. It will take you serveral 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 l. I walked to the station in ten minutent. (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 minutent. 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 morning 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 minute ? 13. Helen puts on her makeup in half an hour. 14. He learned to swim in just a few days. 15. She recovered from her illness in two months. 16. I'll run to the corner store and get what you need] or three minutes. IRREGULAR VERBS (Past Tense) (Continued) Memorize these past tense forms. Fly_flew Grow_grew hold—held pay—Paid Lendmlent Spend—spent say—said mean—meant find—found shoot—shot throw—threw wear—wore win—won shut—shut hurt—hurt cut—cut hit—hit run—ran meet—met sleep—slept shake—shook steal—stole drive—drove blow—blew ride—rode fall—fell Complete the following sentences with the past tense form of the verbs in parentheses. 1. Charles................ (Fall) from his bicycle yesterday and................ (Hurt) his arm badly. 2.I... (pay) two dollars for this book. 3. We... .......... (shake) hands and then ....(say) goodnight. 4.The force of the wind was so great that it. ...............(blow) down several trees in our yard. 5.The pitcher......... .. (throw) a slow ball and the batter... (hit) it for a home run. 6.I............. (sleep) very well last night. 7.We............. (meet) Mary on the corner of Third Avenue. 8. She finally...... ........(find) the book which she................(lose.) 9.Helen................(wear) her new silk dress to the party last night. 10. The drunken driver first............... (cut) in front of us and then .............(run) his car up over the curb. 11. We................ (drive) to Washington in Helen's new car. 12. The bank................... (lend) him money to use in his business, but he..........................(spend) it on a trip to EurOpe. 13. He . (hold) the bird in his hand for several minutes. 14. Our team. (win) the first game butw (lose) the second. 15. We. .........(shut) all the windows and... ...,(lock) all the doors before we.............(go) out. 16. We...............(hire) two horses and............(ride) all around the park on horseback.