All the employees except the manager _____ to work online at home.

The number of people invited _____ fifty, but a number of them ____ absent for different reasons. 

Twenty of the students will have sports, the rest ___ studying here

--- It’s raining hard and we can’t go picnicking today.---If only the weather _____ fine!

--- Lydia, what did our headteacher say just now? --- Every boy and every girl as well as the teachers who       to lead the group       asked to be at the school gate before 6:30 in the morning.