Question

Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets. Do not write the passage, but write the verbs in the correct order.
I ____________ (1) (realize) that I _________ (2) (know) one of the two men by sight, and I ______ (3) (spend) a few seconds thinking why he ____________ (4) (seek) me out on a Sunday afternoon.
During this pause, three small boys _______ (5) (walk) up the passage from the house behind me, __________ (6) (thread) a way around me and the two men outside, and silently ___________ (7) (climb) like cats up into a tree in the middle of the lawn outside. There, the three figures ______________ (8) (rest), _________________ (9) (become) immobile, _____________ (10) (lie) on their stomachs, deep in a secret game.

Answer 1

Hint: There are five types of verb form – the first type is in the present tense, second is in the simple past tense, third in past participle, fourth in present participle, and fifth is in simple present. While solving keep these forms of verb (mainly the first 3) in mind.

Complete answer:
  Before solving let us discuss verb and its various forms –
There are different forms of verbs like – present tense, simple past, past participle, present participle, and simple present tense
$\Rightarrow$ V1 is the first form of the verb (present tense). Examples include: Do, sit, write, use, and give.
$\Rightarrow$ V2 is the second form of the verb (simple past). Examples include: Did sat, wrote, used, and gave.
$\Rightarrow$ V3 is the third form of the verb (past participle). Examples include: Done, sat, written, used, and given.
$\Rightarrow$ V4 is the fourth form of the verb (the present participle). Examples include Doing, sitting, writing, using, giving.
$\Rightarrow$ V5 is the fifth form of the verb (simple present). Examples include: Does, sits, writes, uses, gives.
Now, let us look at the different blanks that need to be filled –
1) This requires the second form (we use simple past because she s talking about the past) of the verb to complete the sentence, which is – realized.
2) Here also we require the second form (in the sentence she indicates that she knows them from earlier) of the verb to complete the sentence, which is – knew.
3) To complete this sentence we need a verb of the second form (simple past), which is – spent.
4) Here also we will use the second form of the verb, which will be – sought.
5( The correct form would be the second form of the verb, i.e. – walked.
6) Here we need to use the present participle of the word, i.e. threading.
7) We will be using the second form of the verb, i.e. climbed.
8) Here also we will use the second form of the verb, which is – rested.
9) Here we use the simple past (second form) of the verb, i.e. – became.
10) Here we will use the word – lying.

Note:
The past participle is used with the verb have (have/has/had) to create the present and past perfect tenses, the past participle form is also used to modify nouns and pronouns, and the past participle is usually the same as the past tense form.