Question

Heavy rains caused havoc in eastern Europe. A massive heat wave
(causes caused/will cause shall have caused) forest fires in Portugal and Spain. Have
(damage damages is damaging will damage) were reported from all
over Europe. Many
(blame blames blamed had blamed) global warming
for the disaster. But some scientists don't
a direct link. Despite
(growing grows growing grew) consensus about
global warming, it is hard to find long term trends in rainfall that would have
directly intluenced the droughts and floods.​

Answer 1

The correct choices from the given options for the passage are as follows:-

Heavy rains caused havoc in eastern Europe. A massive heatwave  caused forest fires in Portugal and Spain. Heavy  damages were reported from all  over Europe. Many  blame global warming  for the disaster. But some scientists don't find  a direct link. Despite  growing consensus about  global warming, it is hard to find long term trends in rainfall that would have  directly influenced the droughts and floods.​

• 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
• singular and plural are two types of words which indicate the quantity of the noun in a sentence.