Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India.Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent and his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872)—by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte's widower. The Duke and Duchess of Kent's only child, Victoria, was born at 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London.Victoria later described her childhood as "rather melancholy".Her mother was extremely protective, and Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called "Kensington System", an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess and her ambitious and domineering comptroller, Sir John Conroy, who was rumoured to be the Duchess's lover. The system prevented the princess from meeting people whom her mother and Conroy deemed undesirable (including most of her father's family), and was designed to render her weak and dependent upon them.The Duchess avoided the court because she was scandalised by the presence of King William's illegitimate children, and perhaps prompted the emergence of Victorian morality by insisting that her daughter avoid any appearance of sexual impropriety.[11] Victoria shared a bedroom with her mother every night, studied with private tutors to a regular timetable, and spent her play-hours with her dolls and her King Charles Spaniel, Dash. Her lessons included French, German, Italian, and Latin, but she spoke only English at home.
2. I was writing an English exercise at this time yesterday.
3. My little sister is sleeping now.
4. My little sister was slepping at this time yesterday.
5. My friends aren't doing their homework now. They are playing volley-ball. _ 6. My friends weren't doing their home¬work at seven o'clock yesterday. They were playing volley-ball.
7. Are you eating ice-cream now?
8. Were you eating ice-cream when I rang you up yesterday?
9. What your father is doing now?
10. What your father was doing from eight till nine yesterday?
11. Why is she crying now?
12. Why was she crying when I saw her yesterday?
13. She was reading the whole evening yesterday.
14. She isn't reading now.
15. Now she is going to school.
16. What are you doing now? —-I'm drinking tea.
17. Was you drinking tea at this time yesterday? — No, I wasn't drinking tea at this time yesterday, I was eating a banana.
18. My sister is fond of reading. She was reading the whole evening yesterday, and now she is reading again.
19. Look! My cat is playing with a ball.
20. When I went out into the garden, the sun was shining and birds were singing in the trees.