ASSIGNMENT—TENSES

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Complete the following passage by choosing the most appropriate option from the ones given
below:

A. To organize a party, a proper occasion (a) __________ be chosen. Venue should be (b) _________.
Budget is the lifeline of all parties, so it should be (c) _________ at the earliest. List of guests should
be (d) _________ . Invitations should be (e) ___________ well in time.

(a) (i) can (ii) should (iii) shall (iv) will

(b) (i) fix (ii) fixing (iii) will fix (iv) fixed

(c) (i) checked (ii) check (iii) checking (iv) shall be check

(d) (i) prepare (ii) prepared (iii) preparing (iv) will prepare

B. Sanitation and hygiene are also important (a) __________ the well being of society and
biodiversity conservations. The government has (b) _________ a programme. It aims to develop (c)
_________ riverfronts. It will solve the problem of pollution (d) _________ the rivers. The need has
been (e) ___________ for a long time.

(a) (i) by (ii) from (iii) for (iv) into

(b) (i) initiates (ii) initiated (iii) initiate (iv) initiating

(c) (i) an (ii) a (iii) in (iv) the

(d) (i) in (ii) on (iii) onto (iv) by

(e) (i) feeling (ii) feel (iii) felt (iv) have felt

C. The ragpickers of India (i)________a pitiable sight. It is poverty that(ii)____________ them to

resort to rag picking. Day in and day out they may be(iii)___________ on the roads, the lanes and the
by lanes of a city or town looking cast-off clothes or something else showy or shoddy that
(iv)___________sell. More often than not, it is children who(v)_______________ to rag picking. But
some young men and women are also(vi)_______________ to take up the trade to make both ends
meet. Why should innocent children (vii)_______________ should be at school at this do this filthy
job? It is because their parents are too poor to support them. So, they neglect them and abandon
them (viii) _____________face the cruel world on their own.

(i) (a) presented (b) present (c) will present (d) may present

(ii) (a) goad (b) goads (c) will goad (d) may goad

(iii) (a) see (b) seen (c) will be seen (d) are being seen

(iv) (a) may (b) will (c) shall (d) could

(v) (a) have taken (b) will take (c) take (d) shall take

(vi) (a) force (b) forced (c) will force (d) may force

(vii) (a) whom (b) who (c) which (d) that

(viii)(a)into (b) for (c) from d) to