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To make an interrogative sentence, we add will or shall followed by the subject and the root
form of a verb. For example:

Will Anand travel by train? Shall we go now?
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Practice Time 3

Rewrite the given sentences in simple future tense.

1. She called us. _______________________________________________________
2. We walked to the bus stop. _______________________________________________________

3. Did they tell us? _______________________________________________________
4. I cooked the vegetables. _______________________________________________________
5. He ran a marathon. _______________________________________________________

Practice Time 4

A. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs given in brackets.
1. Last night, the neighbours _______________ about the loud music. (complain)

2. Every morning, he _______________ his dog for a walk. (take)
3. Do you think it _______________ tonight? (rain)
4. Last year, we _______________ the Louvre in Paris. (visit)
5. He _______________ at all possible places, but could not find the keys. (look)
6. The phone _______________, but I did not hear it. (ring)

7. They flung the ball so hard that it _______________ the windowpane. (break)
8. I would like to know who _______________ this letter because I did not _______________
it. (write, write)

B. Match the columns A with B and rewrite the sentences in the space provided.
Column A Column B

1. Japan is known a. to gauge distance.

2. A young kangaroo is b. the longest river in the world.
3. The Nile is c. the largest flightless bird.

4. The ostrich is d. called joey.

5. Cats use their whiskers e. as the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’. Simple Tenses

1. _______________________________________________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________________________

4. _______________________________________________________________________________
5. _______________________________________________________________________________

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