Diagnostic test

Morning

            ¹It’s morning in the park. ²A young man is walking with his dog. ³Every day he buys a newspaper at the newsstand. ⁴The news dealer greets him. ⁵The man takes his newspaper to a nearby bench. ⁶He sits by himself and reads. ⁷His dog runs in the trees.

Exercise 1: Copy the entire passage.

Exercise 2: Rewrite the entire passage, but change young to old in sentence 1, and change nearby to empty in sentence 5.

Exercise 3: Rewrite the entire passage, but change A young man to A young lady in sentence 2.

Exercise 4: Rewrite the entire passage, but change A young man to Two young men in sentence 2.

Exercise 5: Rewrite the entire passage, but change morning to yesterday morning in sentence 1, and take out the words Every day in sentence 3.