Question

Choose the best verb from the box to complete the paragraph.
(have been ,pre-dated, had had ,had emerged, had reached, to have made, continued, existed, has been estimated, was, )
The number of Normans in England after the Norman Conquest 'was never sufficient for their language____a significant impression on the general population. it ___ that there may ____ as few as 10,000 or 15.000 soldiers perhaps only 5,000 plus an uncertain number of camp followers and opportunistic settlen but this is a tiny number compared to the general English population, which, by the time of the Domesday book____, about 1.5 million. By 1300 AD, that population totalled at least 3 million.the vast majority of the population_______little or no contact with the French, and _____ to speak old English. a bilingual class _____ it probably already ______ given the dynastic connections with Normandy which long _______. the conquest, but this section of the population would have stayed small, consisting of the aristocracy, senior churchmen, merchants and settlers.​

Answer 1

1) have been 2) was 3)

has been estimated 4) continued 5) had 6) had reached 7) to have made 8) had 9) existed