Question

Choose the most appropriate options from the brackets to complete the following passages.
1. Sanjeev was a policeman. He (a) (serve/serving/served/to serve) in the Nicobar
group of islands. He somehow (b) (manage/managing/managed/manager) to save
himself and his family. Then he heard a voice which (c) (call/calling/is calling
was calling) for help. Sanjeev (d) (jump/jumping/jumped/was jumped into the
waves to rescue the lady. But both of them (e) (sweep/swept/were swept had
swept away.​

Answer 1

The correct options from the ones given in the brackets are as follows:-

1. Sanjeev was a policeman. He (a) served in the Nicobar  group of islands. He somehow (b) managed to save  himself and his family. Then he heard a voice which (c) was calling for help. Sanjeev (d) jumped into the  waves to rescue the lady. But both of them (e) were swept away.​

• The given passage is in the past tense.
• 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.