EXERCISE 1. Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct form:
1. He walks as if he (have)__ ____a wooden leg.
2. I wish I (know)_______what is wrong with my car.
3. Wife: I’d like to get a job.
Husband: I’d much rather you (stay)______at home and (look)______after the house.
4. Suppose you (not know)________where your next meal was coming from?
5. You talk as though it (be)_____a small thing to leave your country forever.
6. If you (tie)_______that boat up, it wouldn’t have drifted away.
7. It looks like rain; you (have)______better take a coat.
8. But I told you what to do.
- I know you did. If only I (take)_______your advice.
9. He treats us as if we (be)_______all idiots.
10. I wish I (ask)__________the fishmonger to clean these fish. (I’m sorry I didn’t ask him).
11. I said “Sunday”
- I wish you (not say) Sunday. We’ll never be ready by then.
12. I wish transitor radios never (be)_______invented.
13. I’d rather I (know)_____French.
14. If only I (can)_______swim.
15. He insists that we (be)______careful in our writing.
16. They demanded that he (tell)_______her the truth.
17. I suggest that everyone (write)_______a letter to the governor.
18. It is important that he (be)________the director of the English program.
19. It is essential that he (meet)_______you tomorrow.
20. Her advisor recommended that she (take)________five courses.
21. It was such a beautiful day that one of the students suggested we (have)_____class outside.
22. The movie director insisted that everything about his production (be)____authentic.
23. She asked that we (be)______sure to lock the door behind us.
24. They requested that we (go, not)_______after midnight.
25. It is imperative that he (return)_____home immediately.
26. She specifically asked that I (tell,not)_______anyone else about it.
1/ I’d prefer a salad to a cooked meal.
-->I’d rather ______a salad than a cooked meal______
2/ Tan Phuoc hadn’t made a speech before, so he is very nervous.
--> Because Tan Phuoc wasn’t used _______to make a speech, he is very nervous______
3/ When my father was young, he usually sang very well in a rock band.
--> When my father was young, he used to ________sing very well in a rock band._______