Tense
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Active - Passive Voice
Adjective
Antonyms
Arrangement of Sentences
Articles
Conjunctions
Determiner
Direct & Indirect Speech
Glossary of Official and Technical Terms
idiom or phrase
Letter Writing
Misspelt Word
One Word Substitution
Prefixes and Suffixes
Preposition
Synonyms
Tense
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QUESTION 71
The children ______ in the garden when their father came back from work.
Answer: This describes an ongoing action in the past ('playing') that was in progress when another action ('father came back') happened. Past continuous is used for the ongoing action.
QUESTION 72
I am sure I ______ him at the party last night.
Answer: The specific past time marker 'last night' requires the use of the simple past tense.
QUESTION 73
This is the best book I ______.
Answer: Superlatives (like 'the best') are often followed by the present perfect tense to talk about experiences up to the present.
QUESTION 74
What ______ you do if you saw a snake?
Answer: This is a second conditional sentence, used for hypothetical or unlikely situations. The structure is 'If + simple past, would + base verb'.
QUESTION 75
The English ______ English.
Answer: When 'The' is used with a nationality like 'English', it refers to the people of that country collectively and is treated as a plural subject, taking a plural verb.
QUESTION 76
The ship ______ before the rescue team arrived.
Answer: The sinking of the ship happened before the arrival of the rescue team. The past perfect tense is used for the earlier of two past actions.
QUESTION 77
We ______ our dinner by the time they arrive.
Answer: 'By the time they arrive' sets a future point in time. An action completed before that future point is expressed in the future perfect tense.
QUESTION 78
He often ______ late for his meetings.
Answer: The adverb 'often' indicates a habitual action, so the simple present tense is used.
QUESTION 79
I ______ here since morning but haven't seen him.
Answer: The use of 'since morning' indicates an action that started in the past and is still ongoing. This requires the present perfect continuous tense.
QUESTION 80
Hardly had the sun risen ______ the fog disappeared.
Answer: The correlative conjunction 'Hardly...when' is used to connect two past actions that happened in quick succession. The structure is 'Hardly had + subject + V3... when + subject + V2'.