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 more 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 been minor, and sometimes I wondered whether he even recognized me.

2) would 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 at 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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Complete the sentences:

#1. As usual, he stared at me vacantly for a few seconds, (…)

1) as if his mind had trying to unravel some complicated problem.

2) as if his mind would be trying to unravel some complicated problem.

3) as if his mind were trying to unravel some complicated problem.

#2. Then he looked away at the television set, (…)

1) which wasn't even on.

2) which wasn't even out.

3) which wasn't even at.

#3. I started (…)

1) telling him about the Christmas card.

2) talking him about the Christmas card.

3) saying him about the Christmas card.

#4. I told him how the card had arrived in my mailbox and (…)

1) how I have no idea who Jennifer and Paul were.

2) how I had no idea who Jennifer and Paul were.

3) how I will not have no idea who Jennifer and Paul were.

#5. At one point, he turned toward me, opening his sagging mouth, (…)

1) as if he were about to offer some suggestion.

2) as if he has been about to offer some suggestion.

3) as if he would have been about to offer some suggestion.

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