Past Future Continuous Tense Exercises - Test 1

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• 1. Should he go out alone, it might cost him a long time to find grass and water-for both would be necessary-and, meantime, his stock would be suffering. (suffer)
• 2. Algernon wouldn't be dining with us. (not/dine)
• 3. What would they be looking for in that direction? (what/they/look/?)
• 4. And out there, where the guns muttered, millions of men will be thinkingwill have been thinkingwould be persuadingwould be thinkingwould think that same thought! (think)
• 5. They were sittingwould be sitingwould be sitting out somewhere, talking! (sit)

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• 6. And they will be goingwould be going back to it! (go)
• 7. He would not be takingwould not been takingwould not taking a hazardous leap chanced on the immediate smiles of fortune. (not/take)
• 8. I, therefore, do not any longer persuade him to leave off, as I am convinced that it would be persuadewould be persuading him to be unhappy. (persuade)
• 9. They will be plauiwould be playing some game, perhaps. (play)
• 10. She will be waitingwould be waiting up for my message. (wait)
• 11. Your father will be gettingwould be getting it for me. (get)
• 12. That meant he would be goingwould be going out to fish. (go out)
• 13. If he had left us alone he would not be lieingwould not be lingwould not be lyingwould not lyingwouldn't be lieing there now. (not/lie)
• 14. If he did not walk he would be obtainingwould not be obtaining the gratitude of Sadie by a falsehood. (obtain)
• 15. If she was I would not be writeingwould not be writingwould not be writting this letter. (not/write)

• 16. As likely as not Anthony would be walkingwould not be walking on the other side of the deck. (walk)
• 17. I didn't rightly know what to say, because I didn't know whether the boat would be comingwould be coming up the river or down. (come up)
• 18. No, it would not be beggingwould not be begingwouldn't be beging. (not/beg)
• 19. He is an honest man; for I need not tell you that if he had been a scamp, he would be keepingwould be keepping his carriage by now. (keep)
• 20. It would be seting upwould be setting up the old slavery. (set up)

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