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The document contains 10 sentences that are incomplete. Respondents are asked to complete each sentence by selecting the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets to make each sentence grammatically correct. The completed sentences are then provided. The summaries provide the grammatically correct tense forms to complete the given sentences.

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Complete The Following Sentences Using An Appropriate Tense Form

The document contains 10 sentences that are incomplete. Respondents are asked to complete each sentence by selecting the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets to make each sentence grammatically correct. The completed sentences are then provided. The summaries provide the grammatically correct tense forms to complete the given sentences.

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Complete the following sentences using an appropriate tense form.

1. I ---------------------- for his reply since last week.


a) had been waiting
b) have been waiting
c) am waiting
d) was
2. This time tomorrow, I ---------------------- with my grandchildren.
a) will play
b) will be playing
c) am playing
3. I -------------------- the newspaper every morning.
a) read
b) will read
c) am reading
d) have read
4. When I visited her she --------------------- bed-ridden for six months.
a) had been
b) was
c) has been
d) were
5. I ------------------ in 2006.
a) graduated
b) will graduate
c) had graduated
d) would graduate
6. There --------------------- a famine in Bengal in 1982.
a) was
b) were
c) has been
d) had been
7. During Akbar's reign the Mughals ------------------------ the supreme power in India.
a) become
b) had become
c) became
d) would become
8. Janet ----------------------- home.
a) went
b) has gone
c) had gone
9. It is 6 o'clock. She ---------------------- home.
a) will reach
b) will have reached
c) is reaching
d) reached
10. She ---------------------- many awards for her contribution to classical music.
a) won
b) has won
c) had won
d) wins
1. I have been waiting for his reply since last week.
2. This time tomorrow, I will be playing with my grandchildren.
3. I read the newspaper every morning.
4. When I visited her she had been bed-ridden for six months.
5. I graduated in 2006.
6. There was a famine in Bengal in 1982.
7. During Akbar's reign the Mughals became the supreme power in India.
8. Janet has gone home. (The sentence 'Janet went home' is also correct; however, when there is no
time reference we use the present perfect tense to talk about finished actions.)
9. It is 6 o'clock. She will have reached home.
10. She has won many awards for her contribution to classical music. (The sentence 'She won many
awards…' is also correct.)
Complete the following sentences using the correct form of the verb given in brackets.
1. The thief ................ (catch) red-handed.
2. A bomb scare ................ (delay) the flight by almost two hours.
3. The stadium .................... (reverberate) with dance, music and drama as troupes from different
parts of the country ................... (present) a panorama of color and costume.
4. I .................. (spend) the whole day yesterday in bed.
5. Students from different parts of the country .................. (participate) in the program.
6. It is true that Jim-Corbett .................. (love) animals but he also ................. (kill) many man-eaters.
7. I .................... (learn) Telugu from a friend who ................... (hail) from Andhra Pradesh.
8. The bridge across the river .................. (build) some two hundred years ago.
9. The wicked people who ................ (smuggle) brown sugar into the town ................. (arrest)
yesterday.
10. Last night, the clouds ................. (thunder) in the sky.
Answers
1. Was caught; 2. Delayed; 3. Reverberated, Presented; 4. Spent; 5. Participated; 6. Loved, Killed; 7.
Learned, Hails; 8. Was built; 9. Smuggled, Were arrested; 10. Thundered

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