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Exercise "Sequence of tenses : The Student and the Rose (1/3)", created by here4u (a free exercise to learn English):
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Average mark: 43.5 / 100 Share
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Question 1 passed: 50.8 %
Once upon a time, in a wonderful and huge garden with many varieties of coloured flowers, a poor Student * tears of love...
Question 2 passed: 50.8 %
He * in love with a beautiful young Lady
Question 3 passed: 32.1 %
and * to a ball with her.
Question 4 passed: 58.5 %
During the ball, he * with her and would tell her that
Question 5 passed: 34.3 %
he * her... Life was beautiful, wasn't it ? Well... not really !
Question 6 passed: 33.8 %
If the Student * with him,
Question 7 passed: 26.7 %
he * give her a red rose ! Then, she'll dance, and dance with him and love him back, and they will be happy ever after !
Question 8 passed: 23.8 %
Yet, as there are no red roses in the beautiful garden, the Student * for a red rose...
Question 9 passed: 49.1 %
He had a lot of friends in the garden : a little Green Lizard who * and laughed at him when the Student told him...'How very silly to cry for a red rose !' and the Lizard ran away !
Question 10 passed: 40.7 %
The Butterfly and the Daisy were equally indifferent to the Student's tears. On the contrary, the Nightingale, who *, understood the Student's sorrow
Question 11 passed: 47.8 %
and * away to try to find a red rose for him. She went to all the rose-trees in the garden... Several were white like the snow... Others were yellow, like daffodils (jonquilles), or the hair of the Mermaid on her Throne...
Question 12 passed: 58 %
The only rose-tree with red roses had no flowers because the winter and the storms * his buds, and
Question 13 passed: 32.5 %
he * no roses at all that year...
Question 14 passed: 57.7 %
The Nightingale * and willing to help... She flew to the rose trees again and asked one of them with anguish :
Question 15 passed: 46.8 %
'One red rose is all I need... * no way by which I can get it ? ' 'THERE'S A WAY!' answered the tree.... to be continued....
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