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Answers (irregular verbs)

            The next day she went to her friend’s and told her about her distress.
                                           (to go)                              (to tell)

           Mme. Forester went to her mirrored wardrobe, took out a large casket, brought it, opened
                                    (to go)                                              (to take)                           (to bring)

           it, and said to Mme. Loisel:—
                       (to say)

             “Choose, my dear.”

             She saw at first bracelets, then a necklace of pearls, then a Venetian cross of gold set with
                  (to see)
           precious stones of an admirable workmanship. She tried on the ornaments before the glass,

           hesitated, and could not decide to take them off and to give them up. She kept on asking:—
                                                                                                                                          (to keep)
             “You haven’t anything else?”

             “Yes, yes. Look. I do not know what will happen to please you.”

             All at once she discovered, in a box of black satin, a superb necklace of diamonds, and her

           heart began to beat with boundless desire. Her hands trembled in taking it up. She fastened it
                    (to begin)
           round her throat, on her high dress, and remained in ecstasy before herself.
 

The passage is from Maupassant's The Necklace and was found @ bartleby.com

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