Question

Another important factor in shaping one's personality is memory building in this data-driven world. In

everyday speech we (i) ………. a good memory, of having a poor memory, of having a better memory

for faces than for names, of having a memory that is failing and so on. Such talk suggests that memory

is an object, a thing which (ii) …………… in the same way as we possess a head or a big toe. Yet it is

true to say there (iii) ……………. .

(i) (a) talks of having (b) talked of having (c) talking of having (d) talk of having

(ii) (a) we does possesses (b) we are possess (c) we possess (d) we possesses

(iii) (a) was no such thing (b) is no such thing (c) are no such thing (d) is none such things​

Answer 1

The correct option for the given blanks are as follows:-

(i) (d) talk of having

(ii) (c) we possess

(iii) (b) is no such thing

• The tense of a sentence or a verb indicates the past, present and future.  
• The past tense indicates something that happened earlier, and not anymore.
• The present tense indicates something that is occurring in the current time cycle.
• The future tense indicates something that is yet to happen.
• These three types are again further divided into four more types:- simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous.
• Singular and plural are words that describe the quantity of the subject in the sentence.