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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8A - A murder mystery for the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Look at the highlighted irregular verbs in the story. What are the infinitives?
  2. -
  3. Find and underline nine past simple positive regular verbs in the story. How do you pronounce them? Listen and check. Then listen and repeat the verbs and phrases.

Answer

a)

  1. be - was
  2. be - were
  3. come - came
  4. say - said
  5. speak - spoke
  6. sit - sat
  7. go - went
  8. sleep - slept
  9. see - saw
  10. hear - heard
  11. think - thought
  12. read - read
  13. get up - got up
  14. have - had
  15. take - took
  16. find - found

c)

  • /d/ arrived, died, killed, followed, opened, closed
  • /t/ looked, finished
  • /ɪd/ hated
  • arrived - Inspector Granger arrived.
  • died - Mr Travers died.
  • killed - Somebody killed him.
  • looked - He looked at them.
  • followed - She followed him.
  • finished - We finished dinner.
  • opened - The door opened.
  • closed - The door closed.
  • hated - I hated him.

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