[Grammar] Test. Please check my answers.

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Hello! I kindly ask you to check my answers. Thanks in advance.
Choose the sentence that doesn't relate to the past:
1. They broadcast the news widely last week.
2. She cut her finger and couldn't work.
3. We used to be friends at school.
4. I wouldn't buy this ring.
5. She wouldn't sit up by the window waiting for her son.

Choose the right variant:

Some of you will have to do it,
a) will some?
b) won't some?
c) will you?
d) won't you?

Nobody heard him ... the house.
a) leave
b) have left

The noise of the... glass made me wake up.
a) breaking
b) broken
Make a sentence from the words given below:

1) we, 2) discussed, 3) problems, 4) the school budget, 5) attended, 6) among other, 7) meeting, 8) board, 9) issue, 10) the school.

We attended the school board meeting, discussed the school budget issue among other problems.
 

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Choose the sentence that doesn't relate to the past: .....4. I wouldn't buy this ring. :tick:(?) Note that it could refer to the past if it meant 'I refused to buy this ring'.

Choose the right variant: .....Some of you will have to do it, d) won't you? :tick:

Nobody heard him ... the house......a) leave :tick:

The noise of the... glass made me wake up......a) breaking :tick:


Make a sentence from the words given below:

We attended the school board meeting, where we / and discussed the school budget issue among other problems.
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Thanks a lot for your reply!

As for the first task, at first I thought that "5. She wouldn't sit up by the window waiting for her son." is the right variant. However, then I decided that it is a habitual action in the past with a negative meaning, isn't it?
 

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As for the first task, at first I thought that "5. She wouldn't sit up by the window waiting for her son." is the right variant. However, then I decided that it is a habitual action in the past with a negative meaning, isn't it?
It could refer to a past situation - When her husband was at home, she wouldn't sit by the window waiting for her son, but when her husband was away she would sit in the window from dawn till dusk.

It could also refer to a present characteristic: Polly sits there all day, pining. She's not like her mother - She (the mother) wouldn't sit by the window waiting for her son.She'd do something more positive.

The test question is unsound.In the right context, all of the sentences could refer to the past.
 
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