Grammar C. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple: 17 Dr Frankenstein … (meet) Captain Walton on the ice. 18 Agatha Christie … (write) over thirty novels. 19 Arthur Conan Doyle … (create) the detective, Sherlock Holmes. 20 … (you/help) Cory with his homework? 21 Hercule Poirot … (be) a Belgian detective. 22 Sherlock Holmes wore a cape and … (smoke) a pipe. 23 The professor and Axel … (find) a mysterious message. 24 Hercule Poirot … (catch) many criminals. 25 How … (Axel and the professor/travel)? 26 … (Miss Marple/live) in England?

В Past Simple правильные глаголы получают окончание -ed; у неправильных глаголов используется форма прошедшего времени. В вопросах ставим did и оставляем основной глагол в начальной форме; у глагола be форма для единственного числа — was.

1. met
2. wrote
3. created
4. Did you help
5. was
6. smoked
7. found
8. caught
9. did Axel and the professor travel
10. Did Miss Marple live

Ответ: met; wrote; created; Did you help; was; smoked; found; caught; did Axel and the professor travel; Did Miss Marple live.