Question

Choose the apt option to fill in the blanks.

I thought that the grass _________ cutting, but the lawnmower _________ out of order. Therefore, I _______ the grass with a pair of shears.

needs, is, cut

needed, was, cut

needed, is, cut

had needed, was, am cutting


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Answer 1

By filling in the blank space we will get ''I thought that the grass had needed cutting, but the lawnmower was out of order. Therefore, I am cutting the grass with a pair of shears.

Explanation:

• Correcting the sentences requires the proper use of grammar.

• Proper use of grammatical organization and all the dependent and independent clauses.

• The main thing is we should focus on the use of the proper form of the verb.

• The use of 's' or 'es' depends upon the use of the form of a singular or plural verb.

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Answer 2

I thought that the grass needed cutting, but the lawnmower was out of order. Therefore, I cut the grass with a pair of shears.

Explanation:

• The entire paragraph refers to a past event that took place. Hence we use the "simple past tense" here to fill the blanks
• The simple past tense is a verb tense which is used to talk about things that took place or had existed before now
• Past tense of "need/needs" is "needed" and "was" is the past form of the verb "be" (auxiliary verb - "is")
• "Cut" is a irregular verb.  Irregular verbs are verbs which do not take on the regular "-ed, –d, or -ied" spelling patterns of the "past simple (V2)" or "past participle (V3)", therefore the past tense/past participle of cut would be always "cut"
• Another important concept to understand that we use parallel structure (use of same tense) when he refer to set of events that are interrelated to each other. Like in the above event they are inter-related sentences and hence we use parallel structure in the above, like use of "simple past tense" to fill the balnks in all sentences

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