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1. 1.

   Fill in the blanks with suitable verbs.

   1. Bread and milk ______________ his only food.
   2. One of you ______________ mistaken.
   3. Neither bus ______________ to Varanasi.
   4. ______________ Hari and Gopal here?
   5. The jury ____________ unanimous in ______________ decision.
   6. The cat or the dog ______________ messed this place.
   7. Everybody ______________ enjoying themselves.
   8. Several swimmers _______________ come to the beach.
   9. This house ______________ up for sale.
   10. Both the couples ______________ arrived.
   11. Many of the students ______________ absent last week.
   12. Neither of the two answers ______________ correct.
   13. One of the boys ______________ been very helpful.
   14. The condition of these books _____________ bad.
   15. The captain with his players ___________ on the field.
2. 2.

   Write ten correct sentences using the words given in the table. Change the verb depending on the subject used. Use any other words according to your choice wherever required.

   1. I           like/likes                 dancing......
   2. We          love/loves                 swimming......
   3. He          don't/doesn't like         singing......
   4. She         really like/really likes   gossiping......
   5. They        detest                     cleaning up......
   6. My mother   enjoy/enjoys               solving crosswords....
   7. My inquisitive
      neighbours  adore/adores               cycling......
   8. My baby
      brother     doesn't/don't mind         eating......
   9. Johnny                                 watching......
3. 3.

   Choose and write the correct verbs given in brackets to match the subject in these sentences. Add the auxiliary verb wherever required.

   1. The wild beasts ____________. (fled/flew/flown)       
      The wild beasts have fled.
   2. Who _____________ the juice from the pitcher? (drink/drank/drunk)
   3. Humility, as well as kindness ______________ praise. (deserve/deserves)
   4. Each of these sisters _____________ exquisitely. (sing/sang/sung)
   5. __________ ____________ been said about this topic. (more/much/many)
   6. I ____________ ____________ to everything you ____________ _____________. (agree/agreed)
   7. Help! Thieves _____________ _____________ into my apartment! (break/broke/broken)
   8. ______________ you ______________ your food? (eat/ate/eaten) ___________ you _____________ the leftovers in the bin? (throw/threw/thrown)
   9. Do you ____________ it is a good plan? I ___________ _____________ a great deal of time thinking it over. (think/thought) (spend/spent)
   10. The latest news is that the ship _____________ _____________ and there ___________ no survivors. (sink/sank/sunk) (are/is)
   11. They ____________ the church bells to welcome back the soldiers who __________ in the battle. (ring/rang/rung) (fought/fight)
   12. The scenery she ___________ ___________ was ___________ for the school magazine. (draw/drew/drawn) (chose/chosen)
   13. Well ___________ is half ____________. (begin/began/begun) (do/did/done)
   14. We ____________ down Marine Drive. We __________ __________ past so many times. (drive/drove/driven)
   15. I _____________ ____________ you ten thousand rupees last month. You ___________ back five thousand to me. Will you ___________ me the rest of the money now? (give/gave/given)
4. 4.

   Fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs in brackets.

   1. I have always ____________ with you. I am __________ with you now also. (agree)
   2. The door bell ____________ again. It ___________ a hundres times in the day. (ring)
   3. The boy ____________ down the same steps I have ____________ down from so many times. (fall)
   4. Both your answers _________ wrong. You __________ not ___________ ___________ the correct method, that's why. (is/are) (follow)
   5. Have you _____________ the dress you wanted to buy? I __________ for a long time now. (choose) (be-wait)
   6. Granny usually ____________ the holy book every morning, but she ____________ not ____________ is now. (read)
   7. I ____________ to school everyday. I ____________ to school right now. (walk)
   8. Perin _____________ her tables all the time. She has ___________ them now also. (forget)
   9. The boy ___________ very hard before their exams. They __________ hard now. (study)
   10. She _________ during the summer. She ____________ now. (swim)