Question

Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple.
a. Unlike the police in most of the world, British police … (not to carry) guns.
b. The ordinary policemen still … (to wear) helmets though officers … (to have) caps, but the popularity of the police with general public has declined.
c. Surveys … (to show) that people … (to prefer) this kind of policing, even if it … (not to catch) so many serious criminals.
d. This problem … (to concern) the conduct of all our courts.
e. Magistrates are volunteers who … (to work) at other jobs and … (to sit) in the courts for, say, two days.
f. Nevertheless more thefts, more violence, more vandalism, more fraud … (to exist) than did the years ago.
g. Also some crime … (to become) suddenly fashionable.
h. Not anybody … (to know) whether it really happened rarely or whether people who had been robbed hesitated to come to the police station.
i. It is generally considered to be an activity which … (to make) money for lawyers rather than anything else.
j. On the other hand, the British unlike the Americans … (not to spend) their time suing each other.
k. It … (to decide) how you may distribute your goods when you die, … (to impose) limits on how fast you may drive your car, … (to say) what breeds of dogs you may own.
l. Ministers … (to change) their minds, of course, about emergency regulations. It … (not to affect) law.
m. Secondly, it … (to stop) “law by decree” in which someone with power, either political or administrative … (to claim) that this or that is a good idea and should therefore be enacted.
n. When Parliament … (to pass) a new law, it has to be examined very carefully to make sure that it … (not to contradict) previous law unless there is full and clear intention to do so.
o. The law … (to set out) the arrangements for marriage, divorce and custody of the children of divorced couples.
p. Often we … (to feel) irritated or embittered by obvious stupidities in the law which … (not to take) proper account of a modern situation.

Answer 1

a. Doesn't carry.

b. Wear, have.

c. Show, prefer, doesn't catch.

d. Concerns.

e. Work, sit.

f. Exists.

g. Becomes.

h. Knows.

I. Makes.

j. Don't spend.

k. Decides, imposes, says.

l. Change, doesn't affect.

m. Stops, claims.

n. Passes, doesn't contradict.

o. Sets out.

p. Feel, doesn't take.