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Fill each of the following gaps with a suitable auxiliary or auxiliary form.

1.Schoolboy to friend: I left my book at home. . . . I share yours?

2.I'm taking swimming lessons. I hope to . . . to swim by the end of the month.

3.You . . . better take off your wet shoes.

4.I'm sorry I'm late. I . . . to wait ages for a bus.

5.Teacher: You . . . (obligation) read the play, but you . . . (no obligation) read the preface.

6.I knew he was wrong but I . . . (hadn 't the courage) to tell him so.

7.You're getting fat. You . . . to cut down on your beer drinking.

8.He . . . to smoke very heavily. Now he hardly smokes at all.

9.The new motorway . . . opened this afternoon, (plan)

10.I've come without any money. . . . you possibly lend me Ј5?

11.Ann: . . . we meet at Piccadilly Circus?

12.Tom: It . . . be better to meet at the theatre. We . . . miss one another at Piccadilly.

13. . . you like to come canoeing with me next weekend?

14.Mary: I . . . to pay 20p. for this little chap on the bus yesterday.

15.Ann: My little boy's under three so I . . . (No obligation. Use present tense.) to pay for him.

16.The plane . . . landed (unfulfilled plan) at Heathrow, but it has been diverted to Gatwick.

17.You've spelt it wrong. There . . . be another 's'.

18.You . . . told me! (I'm disappointed that you didn't tell me.)

19.We . . . to take a taxi. Otherwise we'll be late.