Question

1. Hardly had the minister finished his speech when the earthquake (shake) the stadium. Fill in the blanks using the correct from of the verbs​

Answer 1

Answer:

Hardly had the minister finished his speech when the earthquake shook the stadium

Explanation:

We are writing shook because the sentence is in the past tense

Answer 2

Answer:

Hardly had the minister finished his speech when the earthquake the shook stadium.

Explanation:

In this, the speaker wants to tell that the minister had just finished his speech that the whole stadium was shaken by the earthquake. So it is a case of simple past tense and we have to use the second form of the verb shake and i.e. shook.

Verb form of shake:

V₁                              V₂                         V₃

shake                     shook                   shaken

so the correct form of the sentence with the correct form of the verb shake will be :

Hardly had the minister finished his speech when the earthquake the shook stadium