Question

. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verbs given in the brackets

(a) Hardly had the minister finished his speech when the earthquake ---------- (Shake) the

stadium.

(b) It was a beautiful day, the sun ------ (shine) and the birds----- (sing).

(c) When I -------- (come) home this evening, my parents had gone out for a walk.

(d) A massive fire------- (break) out in the building yesterday.

(e) My parents ----------- (arrive) by the morning flight tomorrow.​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) shakeing

( b) shining _ singing

(c) comeing

(d ) breaked

(e) arrived

Answer 2

The answers are as follows:

a. shook

b. was shining, were singing

c. came

d. broke

e. will arrive

Tense

• The given exercise focuses on the appropriate uses of tenses in a sentence. The three tenses are present tense, past tense, and future tense.

• In this exercise, simple past tense, simple future tense, and past continuous tense have been used to fill the blanks.

• Simple past tense shows the actions that have taken place in the past.

• Simple future tense indicates the actions that are going to happen in the future.

• Past continuous tense refers to some continuous action happening in the past.