Exercises: Simple past tense Practice using the simple past correctly with the exercises below. In the blank space in each sentence, fill in the correct simple past form based on the subject and verb specified (e.g., “[he / talk]” becomes “he talked”). Some answers may also be neg...
10.Directed paraphrasing: Students take a lesson and paraphrase it with a particular audience in mind. This not only helps to assess a student’s understanding of the topic, it also helps to assess their ability to reframe it in a way that people in a different context and setting can like...
Jamie exercises not much. Jamie doesn’t exercise much. How to form questions To ask a yes–no question using the simple present, add “do” before the subject and the infinitive form of the verb. Again, the exception is the third person singular, which uses “does” instead of “do.”...
There are four problem types in CLOTH: Grammar type related to tense, active/passive voice, subjunctive, etc., Matching/paraphrasing type that answer questions by copying/paraphrasing words in context, Short-term-reasoning type that infers the answer based on information in the same sentence, and...