It (0) ____________ (be) a wonderful sunny day out in the country. It was summer, and the corn was already (1) ________ (turn) yellow in the fields around the old farm. In the farmyard of the old farm, a duck was (2) ___________ (sit) on her nest, (3) _________ (wait) for her eggs to hatch. She had been sitting there for many days now, and she was (4) __________ (get) a bit tired of waiting. Atlast, the eggs began to hatch under her. “Peep, peep”, the little yellow ducklings said, as they (5) _________ (look) out of the shell “Oh! How big the world is!” “Do you (6) __________ (think) this is the whole world?” their mother (7)___________ (ask) them. “This is only the farmyard! The world (8) __________ (go) on beyond those fields and those trees you see over there. One day I will show it to you. I hope you have all hatched now”.
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It was a wonderful sunny day out in the country. It was summer, and the corn was already turning yellow in the fields around the old farm. In the farmyard of the old farm, a duck was sitting on her nest, waiting for her eggs to hatch. She had been sitting there for many days now, and she was getting a bit tired of waiting. At last, the eggs began to hatch under her. “Peep, peep”, the little yellow ducklings said, as they looked out of the shell “Oh! How big the world is!” “Do you think this is the whole world?” their mother asked them. “This is only the farmyard! The world goes on beyond those fields and those trees you see over there. One day I will show it to you. I hope you have all hatched now”.
Explanation:
The paragraph required the correct use of tenses in the blanks. Look at the following sentences:
- I eat food at 9 o'clock.
- I ate food at 9 o'clock.
- I will eat food at 9 o'clock.
Notice how the verb takes up a form and the meaning of the sentence totally changes? That change denotes time, so it is called a tense.
Some common rules of tenses are below:
→ Habitual actions, universal truths and facts always take up the present tense. Just like the previous sentence: as it is a fact, it will be in the present tense.
→ The perfect tense is used to express completed actions, that can be in the past, the present or the future. It always uses the past participle form of a verb with one of the auxiliaries 'has', 'have' and 'had' depending upon the tense and the subject.
→ The continuous tense is used for describing actions that were, are or will be taking place at some point of time. Like the perfect tense, the continuous tense also has a rule for its verb: we always add -ing to its root form.
→ Now, we have a mixture of perfect tense and continuous tense, that is, perfect continuous tense.
For the past, we use it to describe events that began in some point of time in past and continued to happen till another point of time in the past. Like:
- The company had been selling newspapers since 1978 but now it has been closed.
For the present, we use it to describe events that began in the past but are still going on right now. Like:
- She has been singing since evening.
For the future, we use it to describe events that will not only begin in the future but also continue till another point of time in the future.
- By Tuesday, I will have been dieting for two full weeks.