Question

The roof of hall of a school building ___(fall) down in heavy rain yesterday night. Five persons ______( die) on the spot. The building _____( be) under construction. According to the neighbours about fifteen persons ______( sleeping) .most of the victims __ ( be) Labour class.

Answer 1

1.fell
2.died
3.was
4.slept
5.was

Answer 2

Answer:

The roof of hall of a school building fell (fall) down in heavy rain yesterday night. Five persons died ( die) on the spot. The building was ( be) under construction. According to the neighbours about fifteen persons were sleeping( sleeping). Most of the victims were (be) labour class.

Explanation:

Here, the correct question would be: - Use the appropriate forms of verbs given in the brackets to fill in the blank.

• The roof of hall of a school building fell (fall) down in heavy rain yesterday night. Five persons died ( die) on the spot. The building was ( be) under construction. According to the neighbours about fifteen persons were sleeping( sleeping). Most of the victims were (be) labour class.
• Since the above lines are about an incident that has already occurred, the verbs will be in the past tense.
• So past tense of fall is fell
• past tense of die is died
• past tense of be is was( as it talks about a bridge which is singular),
• sleeping is in continuous form so it becomes were sleeping (as were is used with past tense and noun in plural form,
• be becomes were