Answer for exercise 2
The solution for exercise 2 in chapter 8A - A murder mystery of English File Elementary - Student's Book by Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert
Question
- Look at the highlighted irregular verbs in the story. What are the infinitives?
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- 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)
- be - was
- be - were
- come - came
- say - said
- speak - spoke
- sit - sat
- go - went
- sleep - slept
- see - saw
- hear - heard
- think - thought
- read - read
- get up - got up
- have - had
- take - took
- 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.