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Exercise-56
Direction: Select the most suitable form of the given verbs to fill in the blanks:
1. Group life made the task of………………… (collect) food easier. …………… (Mint) wild and fast
……………(run) animals with weapons also became easier. Red Indian tribes used ……………….
(hunt) in groups. Care of ……………… (bring up) the young also became possible in a group.
Mothers could stay at home …………….. (look) after the children.

2. I know how……………… (swim). I had learnt ……………….. (swim) when l was a child. I like
………………. (climb) mountains also. But it is very difficult and dangerous …………….. (climb) the
steep rocks. Once I decided …………….. (scale) a steep rock. It was a………………. (thrill)
experience.

Answers:-

1. collecting, hunting. running, to hunt, bringing up, to look.

2. to swim, swimming, climbing, to climb, to scale, thrilling.

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