Right form of verbs

A. Fill in the gaps with right form of verbs given in the bracket. Put them in the correct tense. Use the negative where necessary.

1.          Ill news------- (run) fast.

2.          A good student------ (make) notes of his own.

3.          The brave never----- (fear) death.

4.          Man — ------ (embrace) death.

5.          Man----------- (bear) free.

6.          Mango-------- (ripe) in winter.

7.          It — (rain) during the rainy season.

8.          When you came in I-- — (write).

9.          They-- - (come) here a month ago.

10.      We---------- (finish) our supper half an hour ago.

11.      He has not written to me since he ——' (leave) home.

12.      My servant------- (leave) me two weeks ago.

13.      My youngest brother — (get) a new job a week ago.

14.      I — (buy) one like it a month ago.

15.      I ….. (read) a book when he came in.

16.      The sun--------- (shine) when we went out.

17.      He........... — (work) all day yesterday.

18.      A criminal-------- (hate) by all.

19.      The prisoners —...... - (send) to jail last night.

20.      Money —-............... — (beget) money.

21.      The industrious------ (shine) in life.

22.      He just-------- — (finish) his work.

23.      He-------- (stop) work when he was tired.

24.      He always------- — (finish) his work on time.

25.      He is lazy. He-------- (not earn) much.

B.  Fill in the gaps with the right forms of verbs in the brackets. Question c and d have special instructions in the brackets for the use of verbs.

Time and tide (a) ………. (wait) for none. It (b) ………. (go) on and on. It (c)……….(take in the negative form) any rest. It is never constant. Time once gone is gone forever. Lost health may be (d) ………. (regain in passive sense) by medicine and proper caring and nursing, lost wealth by dint of hard labour but lost time cannot be (e) ………. (recover) by any. means because nobody (f) ………. (stop) the ceaseless onward march of time. Success in life (g) ………. (depend) on the best use of time. If we (h) ………. (make) a proper division of our time and do our duties accordingly, we are sure that we would be able to march in life and reach the cherished goal of our life.