Question

By the time the police arrived , the thief_____(Flee) use verbs.

Answer 1

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YOUR ANSWER...

By the time the police arrived, the thief $\bold{fled.}$


As the word 'arrived' is used, which is in past tense, we will used the past form of flee, that is fled.

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Answer 2

By the time the police arrived , the thief had fled.

• The first form of the verb fled is flee.
• The second form of the verb fled is fled.
• The third form of the verb fled is fled.
• The fourth form of the verb fled is flees.
• The fifth form of the verb fled is fleeing .
• Here we use past perfect form of fled because the second action had already taken place before the first.
• Here the thief had already fled away before the police arrived.
• Therefore in this case, past perfect form of the verb would be used.

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