—Are you absent from the meeting?—Yes, who______it would rain!

I should not have laughed if I________you were serious.               

I was really anxious about you. You _____ __ home without a word. 

We ______ John’s name on the race list yesterday but for his injury. 

The biggest problem for most plants,which_______just get up and run away when threatened,is that animals like to eat them.