DANIEL DEFOE
ROBINSON CRUSOE: PASSAGE No. 1
created by Savino Carrella

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PUT THE VERBS IN BRACKETS INTO THE CORRECT TENSE

I (be) born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father (be) a foreigner of Bremen, who (settle) first at Hull.
He (get) a good estate by merchandise, and (leave off) his trade (live) afterward at York, from whence he (marry) my mother, whose relations (be) named Robinson, a good family in that country, and from whom I (call) Robinson Kreutznear; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now (call), nay, we (call) ourselves, and (write) our name, Crusoe, and so my companions always (call) me.
I (have) two elder brothers, one of which (be) lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly (command) by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and (kill) at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards; what (become) of my second brother I never (know), any more than my father and mother did (know) what was (become) of me.
(be) the third son of the family, and (not breed) to any trade, my head (begin) (fill) very early with rambling thoughts.