Question

(uncritically, spotted, sprawled, inclined,enormous)

Suddenly I ___6___something that looked like an __7____ bushy beast lying

__8___ across the road. I was half ___9__to turn and go back. But as I came closer

I saw that it was a fallen tree, with its dry branches spread out.” Mahendra would

stretch himself back in his canvas chair and listen to Iswaran’s tales __10____​

Answer 1

The correct words for the given blanks in the passage are as follows:-

6. spotted

7. enormous

8. sprawled

9. inclined

10. uncritically

• All the verbs are in the past tense.
• 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 sentence starts with the narrator having seen something, so we use spotted, as it means the same.
• In the next blank the word should begin with a vowel since "an" is given before it. We write enormous as it describes the beast.
• sprawled means to lie with arms and legs spread out, which fits with the description given before the next blank.
• inclined here means biased toward something.
• uncritically means without criticising.