Question

Read the newspaper headlines and complete the news items from the given options:
(a)Ban on Wheat Lifted
The government decided ____________ the 4-year-old ban on wheat export.
(i)lifted
(ii)has lifted
(iii)was lifting
(iv)to lift
(b)Housing Policy Approved
The Cabinet ____________ the draft of the State Housing Policy.
(i)was approving
(ii)has approved
(iii)will approve
(iv)has approve
(c)CBC Condemns Bomb Blast
The Catholic Bishops Council on Sunday ____________ the bomb blast atDelhi.
(i)condemned
(ii)was condemned
(iii)have condemned
(iv)condemns
(d)Dr. Invited for World Congress
Dr.Varun Vasudev ____________ to the 29 World Congress.
(i)is inviting
(ii)has invited
(iii)has been invited
(iv)invited

Answer 1

1 to lift

2. Has approved

3. Condemned

4. (in doubt) has been invited or has invited.

Answer 2

(a) to lift

(b) has approved

(c) condemned

(d) has been invited

The verbs are always accompanied by the verbs called modals and auxiliaries.

The presence of verb alone is called as regular verbs.

These modals and auxiliaries are used represent the time like whether the action is taking place at the past or present or future.

In the above given question, all the question indicate past forms except first one which indicates future form.