Complete the sentences:

#1. Then I thought about college, the people in my dorm, the classes I (……)

1. had taken, but Jennifer and Paul fit in somewhere.

2. had taken, but Jennifer and Paul fit in nowhere.

3. had taken, but Jennifer and Paul fit in anywhere.

#2. On Sunday, I (……)

1. went to visit my father at the nursing home.

2. have gone to visit my father at the nursing home.

3. had gone to visit my father at the nursing home.

#3. I took a New Jersey Transit train (……)

1. to get from Penn Station to New Brunswick.

2. to reach from Penn Station to New Brunswick.

3. to achieve from Penn Station to New Brunswick.

#4. From there, it (……)

1. was a five minute cab ride to All Homes Nursing Care.

2. was a five minute cab lift to All Homes Nursing Care.

3. was a five minute cab road to All Homes Nursing Care.

#5. After the stroke, (……)

1. I visited my father at the hospital practically every day.

2. I have visited my father at the hospital practically every day.

3. I will have visited my father at the hospital practically every day.

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Complete the sentences:

#1. But after he was transferred to the nursing home (……)

1. my visits become more infrequent. Lately, I'd been going once a month or every other month.

2. my visits became more infrequent. Lately, I'd been going once a month or every other month.

3. my visits have become more infrequent. Lately, I'd been going once a month or every other month.

#2. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy seeing him; I just didn't think the visits (……)

1. were being accomplished anything.

2. were accomplished anything.

3. were accomplishing anything.

#3. He had become (……)

1. more and more despondent.

2. the and more despondent.

3. the most and more despondent.

#4. The doctors thought he had suffered a series of "minor strokes", as if a stroke (……)

1. could have be minor, and sometimes I wondered whether he even recognized me.

2. can be minor, and sometimes I wondered whether he even recognized me.

3. could be minor, and sometimes I wondered whether he even recognized me.

#5. He couldn't, or wouldn't, speak, so I usually would sit by his bed for a half-hour or so and talk about the weather or things (……)

1. that were going on at the office, and then I'd have gone home.

2. that were going on at the office, and then I'd gone home.

3. that were going on at the office, and then I'd go home.

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Complete the sentences:

#1. He never seemed to mind (……)

1. when I have left.

2. when I left.

3. when I will leave.

#2. When I arrived in his room that day, (……)

1. the nurse was busy to change his bed pan.

2. the nurse was busy changing his bed pan.

3. the nurse was busy by changing his bed pan.

#3. It still jolted me to see my father, the man (……)

1. who had always seem indestructible to me, in such a weak, vulnerable condition.

2. who would always seemed indestructible to me, in such a weak, vulnerable condition.

3. who had always seemed indestructible to me, in such a weak, vulnerable condition.

#4. I wondered which dad I would remember after he was dead, (……)

1. when the bed pan was also a memory.

2. when the bed pan will be also a memory.

3. when the bed pan would have been also a memory.

#5. I sat down (……)

1. next to him.

2. besides him.

3. at him.

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