3. Write declarative sentences, using will or shall in the first person (singular or plural) to express a threat, a promise, resolution, consent, desire, determination, simple futurity.
4. Fill the blanks in the following questions with will or shall. Write sentences (using will or shall) in answer.
- 1. —— you promise to do better?
- 2. —— you make any promises if he insists?
- 3. —— we miss our train?
- 4. —— we go? Just ask us!
- 5. —— I go now? I fear I am wearying you.
- 6. —— I tell you what I really think?
- 7. —— you call a cab for me, if you please?
- 8. —— you be glad to see him?
- 9. —— you see me if I call at one o’clock?
- 10. —— we see you this evening?
- 11. —— you be kind enough to open that door, or —— I?
- 12. —— you miss your brother?
- 13. —— we wait here, or —— you relent and let us go with you?
- 14. —— we allow this evil to continue?
- 15. —— you forgive me?
EXERCISE 32
([§§ 242–245], [pp. 106–107])
1. Name all the complete (or compound) tenses and explain their formation.
1. Four long years in the times of the war had he languished a captive.—Longfellow. 2. The adventurer has subsequently returned to his native country. 3. Spiders had built their webs in the angles of the walls and ceilings. 4. Whole fleets had been cast away. Large mansions had been blown down. 5. I am just returned from staying three days at a delightful inn by the river Ouse, where we always go to fish ([§ 242, 1], note).—Fitz Gerald. 6. In the evening we reached a village where I had determined to pass the night. 7. I have sent by the Gisbornes a copy of the “Elegy on Keats.” 8. I have really done my best. 9. Our visits to the islands have been more like dreams than realities. 10. We are here arrived at the crisis of Burns’s life. 11. The chills of a long winter had suddenly given way; the north wind had spent its last gasp; and a mild air came stealing from the west. 12. The officer at last turned away, having satisfied himself that the room was empty. 13. Carson will have reached shelter long before this.
2. Construct ten sentences in which the verbs in Exercise 29, 2 are used in the perfect tense.
3. Turn the verbs in these sentences into the pluperfect tense; into the future perfect tense. Write sentences in which the same verbs are used as perfect participles; as perfect infinitives.
EXERCISE 33
([§§ 246–254], [pp. 107–112])
1. Tell whether each verb is in the active or the passive voice.