SHERLOCK HOLMES
Fill in the blanks in Sherlock Holmes' biography. Put the verbs in brackets in the past tense.

This is the story about Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective ever. He ............. (be) born on 6th 1854, during Queen Victoria's reign. He.........(not be) raised in London, as most people believe. Instead, ..... (spend) his childhood in the countryside with his parents and his older brother Mycroft. When he............(finish) high school, he.........(study) at London University and..............(become) a consulting detective. He ................. (not want) to live in the countryside again, so he ......... (move) to London permanently. Where........ I he........... ..(live)? In the famous 221b Baker Street. The stories about his deductions and investigations became legendary, and so..........(do) he. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.... (write) many Sherlock Holmes' stories. How many stories.......... he ........... (write)? Exactly sixty! In his books, he always ... (describe) how Sherlock............ ! and how much fun he (smoke) a pipe, how he .............(play) the violin (have) doing chemical experiments in his flat. Sherlock ......(work) with his loyal friend, Doctor Watson. Together, there................. ( not be) any mystery they couldn't solve. However, all Sherlock stories never really..............happen), they...... (be) only fiction. So, we could say that the real hero............(be) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This is the story about Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective ever. He was (be) born on 6th 1854, during Queen Victoria's reign. He wasn't (not be) raised in London, as most people believe. Instead, .he spent (spend) his childhood in the countryside with his parents and his older brother Mycroft. When he finished (finish) high school, he stydied (study) at London University and became (become) a consulting detective. He didn't want (not want) to live in the countryside again, so he moved (move) to London permanently. Where did he lived (live)? In the famous 221b Baker Street. The stories about his deductions and investigations became legendary, and so did (do) he. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote (write) many Sherlock Holmes' stories. How many stories did he write (write)? Exactly sixty! In his books, he always decscribed (describe) how Sherlock was ! and how much fun he smoked (smoke) a pipe, how he played (play) the violin having (have) doing chemical experiments in his flat. Sherlock worked (work) with his loyal friend, Doctor Watson. Together, there weren't ( not be) any mystery they couldn't solve. However, all Sherlock stories never really happened (happen), they were (be) only fiction. So, we could say that the real hero was (be) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

past simple

verbes réguliers = + -d

se terminant par "ch", 'sh", "o", "x" = + -ed

se terminant par consonne + -y = + -ied

verbes irréguliers

pas de solution miracle => à apprendre par cœur

questions/négations

au négatif et interrogatif (excepté pour be qui est déjà un auxiliaire)

on uitilise le prétérit de l'auxiliaire "do" qui est "did"

L'auxiliaire étant au prétérit, le verbe va reprendre sa Base Verbale

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