Question

Exercise-2 Rewrite the following passage in Simple Past Tense. (First underline all the verbs.) :-
Near the bed, two little children - a boy and a girl — sleep together in a cradle and are smiling
in their sleep. How soundly they sleep in their old tottering cradle! It seems as if nothing can
wake them up. Outside the rain beats down in floods and the sea gives forth a sound like an
alarm bell. From the old roof, drops of water fall on the floor.​

Answer 1

Underlining verbs

Near the bed, two little children - a boy and a girl — Sleep together in a cradle and are smiling

in their sleep. How soundly they sleep in their old tottering cradle! It seems as if nothing can

Wake them up. Outside the rain beats down in floods and the sea Gives forth a sound like an

alarm bell. From the old roof, drops of water Fall on the floor.

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Change into Past tense ( Simple and Continuous)

→ Near the bed, two little children - a boy and a girl — Slept

→ together in a cradle and were Smiling .

in their sleep.

→ How soundly they sleep in their old tittering cradle! It Seemed

→ as if nothing can Woke them up.

→ Outside the rain beat down in floods and the sea gave forth a sound like an alarm bell.

→ From the old roof, drops of water fell on the floor.

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Structure of Past simple tense : -

Subject + 2nd form of verb + object .

Sleep → Slept

Seems → Seemed

Wake → Woke

Beats → Beat

Gives → Gave

Fall → Fell .

Answer 2

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Rewrite the given passage in Simple Past Tense. (First underline all the verbs.)

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Near the bed, two little children - a boy and a girl — slept together in a cradle and were smiling in their sleep. How soundly they sleep in their old tottering cradle! It seemed as if nothing can woke them up. Outside the rain beat down in floods and the sea gave forth a sound like an alarm bell. From the old roof, drops of water fell on the floor.

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Simple past tense -It indicates an action done in the past time. eg :

1. It did not rain yesterday.
2. He read a book yesterday.

Different uses of past indefinite tense :

1. To express an event which occurred at a particular point of time in past .
2. Habits of the past time which do not exist now can be express the using used to.
3. The past form of Be is was/ were which is used to ask or tell anything about someone.
4. In conditional sentences the simple past tense form is used to show imagination.

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