Verb Forms Exercise

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs given.

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Forum Post: How Can We Improve Our Chinese?

By: Jackie Ng
Posted at: 3:42 p.m., 27 May

1. ______ you ever ______ (hear) of Jin Yong? Jin Yong was a famous martial arts novel writer. He 2. ______ (die) in 2018. Altogether he 3. ______ (write) 15 novels. When 4. ______ I first ______ (read) his books? In P4. After, I 5. ______ (fail) my Chinese exam, Dad 6. ______ (give) me one of Jin Yong’s novels. He told me that when he was young, there 7. ______ (be not) any smartphones, so he 8. ______ (spend) a lot of time reading. I 9. ______ (not like) the book at first. But after the first chapter, I 10. ______ (cannot) put it down! My Chinese 11. ______ (improve) a lot since I started reading Jin Yong’s novels.

Jin Yong’s novels 12. ______ (be) still my favourite books. I’m sad that there 13. ______ (not be) any new ones in the future. But we can still read his old novels. I recommend Jin Yong’s novels to anyone who wants to improve their Chinese. I 14. ______ (write) my own novels when I grow up. I hope I can be a great writer like Jin Yong.

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By: Chan Tai Man
Posted at: 3:50 p.m., 27 May

15. My sister ______ (come) first in her Chinese exam last month. She put in a lot of effort. She 16. ______ (attend) a tutorial class at Elite Centre for two years. She 17. ______ (go) to the class every Saturday. Her teacher Mr. Ma is nice. He 18. ______ (not shout) at his students. I 19. ______ (join) the class next month.

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By: Kelly Li
Posted at: 6:38 p.m., 27 May

20. ______ you ever ______ (think) about keeping a diary in Chinese? I 21. ______ (keep) a diary since P3. Before I 22. ______ (be) bad at Chinese, but now I usually get good marks in writing. My teacher 23. ______ (say) my stories are never boring. Keeping a diary 24. ______ (be) a good way to improve your Chinese.

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Answer Key:

1. Have you ever heard
2. died
3. wrote
4. did I first read
5. failed
6. gave
7. were not
8. spent
9. did not like
10. could not
11. has improved
12. are
13. will not be
14. will write

Chan Tai Man:
15. came
16. has attended
17. went
18. does not shout
19. will join

Kelly Li:
20. Have you ever thought
21. have kept
22. was
23. has said / said
24. is