Fill in the Blanks Tenses PractiseOnline version Practise tenses with a fill in the gaps activity. Context: email at work, heping a workmate by Daniela Quevedo 1 Hi Patricia Below is the short company history I've written for the " About us " entry on the English page of the new website . I think it's generally OK but I'm so unconfident about my use of tenses in English that I've just left the verbs in the nfinitive ! Can you put them in the right form and send it back ? Thanks and sorry for being so useless ! Brigitte This is the unusual storu of Raincoat Software , a company that ( come ) into being accidentally because of the hobby of one man , Hans Meier . In 1998 Hans ( work ) as a computer programmer for a large bank in Zurich . But he ( be ) restless . Each evening he ( return ) home and , just for fun , ( hack ) into official websites on his personal computer ( not the bank's , of course ! ) . The day after he ( hack ) onto a particularly sensitive US government webste , he ( receive ) an email from them . Fearing that this would be the end of his career as a hacker and at the bank , he ( open ) it . It ( be ) a request from the US government , asking if he ( want ) a job as a security advisor . Rather than taking a job as a government employee , Hans Meier ( see ) the oportunnity o make a succesful business out of computer security protection . Raincoat Software ( be ) born . Since then , the company ( employed ) over 50 'securty experts' - in other words , people with a similar background to our founder . We ( help ) over 300 large companies and government departments and are now a $100 million a year business . But did the US government think it ( take ) a risk by employing Hans Meier all those years ago ? The answer they ( give ) then is still the company's motton today : " Better safe than sorry " .
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