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Tenses Exercise I
Tenses Exercise I
2. Students at a number of schools ——————- from their classes in protest against the
high-handedness of the administrative staff.
a) Stay away
b) Stayed away
c) Has stay away
d) Had stay away
3. The whole day yesterday the boys ——————– to the cricket commentary.
a) Listen
b) Will listen
c) Has listened
d) Listened
5. The stadium ———————– with dance, music and song as troupes from across the
country presented a panorama of colors and costumes.
a) Had reverberated
b) Would reverberate
c) Reverberate
d) Reverberated
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c) Learn, lived
d) Had learnt, lives
10. Last week some wicked people ———————- brown sugar into the town but they were
arrested.
a) Smuggle
b) Smuggled
c) Have smuggled
d) Are smuggling
11. In the morning, he —————– a torn shirt but in the evening he changed it.
a) Is put on
b) Had put on
c) Has put on
d) Was put on
12. When I —————– to the hospital, the doctor —————– the operation.
a) Went , had performed
b) Had gone, performed
c) Went, performed
d) Go, performed
13. After —————— into the bus we discovered that we ——————– the wrong one.
a) Got, boarded
b) Getting, had boarded
c) Get, boarded
d) Getting, board
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15. John ———————- to join the medical college, but he ——————– to get admission.
a) Wanted, had failed
b) Had wanted, failed
c) Had wanted, had failed
d) Want, failed
Answers
1. Caught
2. Stayed away
3. Listened
4. Caused
5. Reverberated
6. Loved, killed
7. Learnt, lives
8. Built
9. Read
10. Smuggled
11. Had put on
12. Went, had performed
13. Getting, had boarded
14. Had finished, rang
15. Had wanted, failed
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