Question

My guide (1)_____ (tell) me if I wanted to meet these people, I would have to walk two miles. We finally (2) _____ (reach) a village where I (3) _____ (meet) a lady. My translator (4) ______ (find) it difficult to interpret the lady's words because her dialect was quite different. She (5) _______ (is) a dark-skinned and dark-haired lady. She must have been around seventy years old but had no grey hair. She obviously could not afford to dye her hair. So what was her secret? Nobody(6) _____ (know). It must have been a 'secret' common to all, for not one person in the whole village (7) ______ (has) a trace of grey hair. I (8) _____ (think) about it for a long time.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 (told) ,2(reached),3(met),4(found),5(was),6(knew),7(had),8(thought)

Answer 2

The given set of fill-in-the-banks requires us to change the tense of the word appropriately:

My guide told(1) me if I wanted to meet these people, I would have to walk two miles.

• The base form of the verb "tell" is changed to its past tense by changing it to the word "told". This root word is an irregular word, which means it cannot be changed to its past tense by adding -ed

We finally reached(2) a village where I met(3) a lady

• To form the past tense of the word "reach", -ed is added at the end since it is a regular word
• The past tense of the word "meet" is "met", wherein the place of the ending ""-et is shifted

My translator found(4) it difficult to interpret the lady's words because her dialect was quite different.

• Forming the past tense of the word "find" requires changing the "-ind" ending to "-ound"

She was(5) a dark-skinned and dark-haired lady. She must have been around seventy years old but had no grey hair.

• To change the tense of the word "is", we use either "were" or "was" depending on the context

She obviously could not afford to dye her hair. So what was her secret? Nobody knew(6)

• The past tense involves replacing "-ow" with "-ew"

It must have been a 'secret' common to all, for not one person in the whole village had(7) a trace of grey hair.

• The past tense of the word "has" is "had"

I thought(8) about it for a long time

• The root word "think" is changed to "thought" to imply the past perfect tense

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