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In most of these examples the verb makes a strong word partnership with a following noun, e.G. Do business, cut the budget. Can you underline the others?

2.1.4. Complete this article from a trade magazine using the Past Indefinite of the following verbs. Retell it (in the 3rd person singular).

visit, join, help, spend, begin, decide, study, become, leave, complete

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs Maria Teicher as head of quality control. Maria...... chemical engineering at the University of Utrecht and then..... an MBA at Claremont College. After graduating she ..... work with ChemTech Supplies in Belgium. She ..... assistant production manager in 1989 and she ..... to develop ChemTech's Multivit pharmaceutical range. Maria ...... the company in 1991 and ...... Volcker Foods of California as head of research and development. She ..... two years in the United States. Last year she briefly ..... our Milan plant and was so impressed that she ...... to return to Europe.

2.1.5. Think of a suitable verb in the Past Indefinite to complete each gap. Retell it (in the 3rd person singular).

This morning I (1) ..... work at a quarter to eight. I (2) ...... a meeting with my boss at nine o'clock and then I (3) ..... to the production plant to sort out an assembly line problem. When I (4) ..... back to my office I (5) ..... a fax from Sanjay on my desk. He (6) ..... me to phone him with details of the Lyon conference. After that I (7) ..... half an hour writing the production report. Then it (8) ..... time for lunch. I (9) ...... Christina in the canteen and she (10) ...... me that there (11) ..... a lot of problems in her department. She (12) ..... me if I could come to a meeting in her office to discuss the situation.

2.1.6. Open the brackets. Use either the Past Indefinite or Past Continuous. Retell the story.

I (to walk) along Piccadilly when I (to realize) that a man with a ginger beard (to follow) me. To make sure, I (to walk) on quickly, (to turn) right, then left and (to stop) suddenly at a shop window. In a few minutes the man with the beard (to appear) and (to stop) at another shop window. I (to go) on. Whenever I (to stop) he (to stop). I (to decide) to try to shake him off. A 74 bus (to stand) at the bus stop just beside me. Just as it (to move) off, I (to jump) on it. The man (to miss) the bus, but he (to get) into another 74 which (to follow) the first. At Gloucester Road Underground I (to leave) the bus and (to buy) a ticket at a ticket machine. As I (to stand) on the platform waiting for a Circle Line train, my pursuer (to come) down the stairs. He (to carry) a newspaper. We (to get) into the same compartment. At every station he (to look) over the top of his newspaper to see if I (to get) off. I (to become) tired of being shadowed like this, so finally I (to sit) beside the man and (to ask) him why he (to follow) me. At first he (to say) he (not to follow) me at all but when I (to threaten) to knock him down, he (to admit) that he was. Then he (to tell) me that he (to be) a writer of detective stories and (to try) to see if it was difficult to follow someone unseen. I (to advise) him to shave off his ginger beard if he (not to want) his victims to know he (to follow) them.