diamondcutter
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Last Tuesday Mary had a bad stomach-ache. On Wednesday she went to the doctor because she still felt ill. ‘This is very bad,’ the doctor said. ‘I want you to stay in bed for the next two days.’ Mary was sad because her favourite class, Science, was on Friday. She loved Science!
On Friday night Mary’s friends, Paul, visited her. ‘There’s a science test at 3p.m. on Monday,’ he said. Mary studied for the test on Sunday afternoon. When she went to school on Monday, Paul laughed at her. ‘There isn’t going to be a test today! It was a joke!’ But in the afternoon their science teacher said, ‘Close your books. We’re going to have a test now.’
(Test book 5 for Kid’s Box 5, Cambridge University Press)
I have three questions about this passage.
1.She loved Science! I wonder why the writes uses the past simple not the the present simple. I think Mary still loves Science.
2.It was a joke! I’d like to know if this sentence could be rewritten as this: It is a joke! I think it’s still a joke.
3.But in the afternoon their science teacher said... I wonder if the ‘in the afternoon’ should be ‘on the afternoon’ because it’s a specific afternoon, the afternoon of the Monday.
On Friday night Mary’s friends, Paul, visited her. ‘There’s a science test at 3p.m. on Monday,’ he said. Mary studied for the test on Sunday afternoon. When she went to school on Monday, Paul laughed at her. ‘There isn’t going to be a test today! It was a joke!’ But in the afternoon their science teacher said, ‘Close your books. We’re going to have a test now.’
(Test book 5 for Kid’s Box 5, Cambridge University Press)
I have three questions about this passage.
1.She loved Science! I wonder why the writes uses the past simple not the the present simple. I think Mary still loves Science.
2.It was a joke! I’d like to know if this sentence could be rewritten as this: It is a joke! I think it’s still a joke.
3.But in the afternoon their science teacher said... I wonder if the ‘in the afternoon’ should be ‘on the afternoon’ because it’s a specific afternoon, the afternoon of the Monday.