Unit 1 - 1.5 Joan of Arc — English STD 10 — Question

Hawking first began to notice problems with his physical health while he was at Oxford.
(Frame a 'Wh-' question to get the underlined part as answer.)

Chairs were being arranged. (Change to the active voice.

Hawking spoke against the idea. (Rewrite using 'did not.)

I'm not able to. (Rewrite using a modal auxiliary.)

Name the tense of the underlined verbs to include time and aspect:
(a) I shall be telling you three stories.
(b) I slept on the floor.

I started a company. (Rewrite changing to the present continuous tense.)

Rewrite as directed, without changing the meaning:
(1) The reader can read his work again and again and find new layers of meaning.
(Begin the sentence with 'On reading....")
(2) As the novel progresses, the old man and the marlin are inseparably linked.
(Rewrite using 'progress' as a noun.)
(3) When I first read this novel, I was unimpressed.
(Rewrite using 'but' as a coordinator.)

Name the tense of the underlined verbs to include Time and Aspect :
(i) We were designing the first Macintosh computer.
(ii) It had made all the difference.

Pick out the finite and non-finite verbs from the sentences:
(a) The king continued to dig.
(b) The sun began to sink.

Add the appropriate Question Tag:
There was clearly nothing to do,.............?