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Go, get, grow and turn: exerciseComplete the following sentences using appropriate words indicating change.. He ……… bald in his early twenties.. When they ……… rich, they began to ignore

Go, get, grow and turn: exercise

Complete the following sentences using appropriate words indicating change.

1 I go to work by car and my neighbour goes by bus I usually ……… there first

a) go

b) get

c) either could be used

2 Can you tell me how to ……… to the railway station?

a) go

b) get

c) reach

3 Leaves ……… brown in autumn

a) go

b) get

c) either could be used here

4 He ……… bald in his early twenties

a) got

b) went

c) either could be used here

5 Without noticing it, he ……… old

a) went

b) grew

c) either could be used here

6 When they ……… rich, they began to ignore their old friends

a) turned

b) grew

c) went

7 Everything that King Midas touched, ……… into gold

a) got

b) turned

c) either could be used

8 He taught in a college for twenty years before ……… writer

a) turning

b) going

c) getting

Answers

1 I usually go to office by car and my neighbour goes by bus I usually get there first.

2 Can you tell me how to get to the railway station?

3 Leaves go brown in autumn.

4 He went bald in his early twenties.

5 Without noticing it, he grew old.

6 When they grew rich, they began to ignore their old friends.

7 Everything that King Midas touched turned into gold.

8 He taught in a college for twenty years before turning writer.

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