Ex. 18. Use the verbs to be, to have in the required tense form.

1. Computer programs to be the sets of instructions that tell a computer what to do. [Present]

2. Microsoft, Inc. to have branch offices in more than countries around the world. [Present]

3. A new information service soon to be available to library users. [Future]

4. The Mark I computer to be the first machine, which solved mathematical problems at a high speed. [Past]

5. Online databases to be available to anyone who to have access to the Internet. [Present]

6. ENIAC to be the first digital computer built in the 1940s. It to be enormous. It to be as big as a locomotive. It to have more than 18,000 glass vacuum tubes inside and its weight to be equal to the weight of six elephants. [Past]

7. GRIDPad computer to be a portable computer that to have an electronic pen instead of a keyboard. [Present]

8. Since next week, all our computers to have unlimited access to the Internet. [Future]

9. The first programmer in the world to be Lord Byron’s daughter. [Past]

10. The central processing unit, keyboard, mouse, printer and monitor to be parts of computer hardware. [Present]

11. The system to have the ability to run more than one program at the same time. [Present]

12. The first programs to be very hard to write and understand. They to be extremely long strings of zeros and ones. [Past]

13. BASIC to be a programming language for solving mathematical and business problems. [Present]

14. Electrons in the atom to have the negative charge. [Present]

15. Next year, the number of homes with either cable or satellite television to be over ten million. [Future]