WBBSE 10th Class English Solutions Chapter 2 Tense of Verbs
WBBSE 10th Class English Solutions Chapter 2 Tense of Verbs
West Bengal Board 10th Class English Solutions Chapter 2 Tense of Verbs
WBBSE 10th Class English Solutions
WORKED-OUT TEXTUAL EXAMPLES
A. Read the following sentences and fill in the blanks with proper verb forms:
Father’s Help
1. Lying in bed, Swami…………. (realize) with a shudder that it …………. (be) Monday morning.
Ans. realized; was
2. It …………… (look) as though only a moment ago it ……… (be) Friday.
Ans. looked; was
3. At nine o’clock, Swaminathan ………… (wail), “I ………….. (have) a headache.”
Ans. wailed; have
4. Father ………… (ask) him, ” ……………. (have) you no school today?”
Ans. asked; Have
5. Swami. …………… (know) how strict his father ………… (can) …………. (be).
Ans. knew; could; be
6. “Tell him you …………. (have) a headache and so …………. (be) late.”
Ans. had; are
7. “He ………….. (be) a very angry man. He ………… (be) especially angry with boys who ……… (come) in late.’
Ans. is; is; come
8. “They ………….. (say) that even the headmaster …………. (be) afraid of him.”
Ans. say; is
9. Swami ………….. (hope) that with this his father ……….. (will make) to see why he must avoid school for the day.
Ans. hoped; would be made
10. By the time Swami ……………. (be) ready to leave for school, father …………(have) ……….. (compose) a long letter to the headmaster.
Ans. was; had; composed
Fable
1. The mountain and the squirrel ………… (have) a quarrel.
Ans. had
2. But all sorts of things and weather………… (must) ………. (take) in together, to ………… (make) up a year and a sphere.
Ans. must; be taken ; make
3. If I …………. (be) not so large as you, you ………… (be) not so small as I, and not half so spry.
Ans. am; are
4. Talents ………… (differ); all ……….. (be) well and wisely put; if I can not ……….. (carry) forests on my back, neither can you ……. (crack) a nut.
Ans. differ; is; carry; crack
The Passing Away of Bapu
1. I. ………….. (be) …………. (have) tea at home on the evening of 30th January, 1948, when I ……….. (be) …….. (call) to Birla House by an urgent telephone.
Ans. was; having; was ; called
2. Gandhiji ………….. (has shoot) on his way to a prayer meeting.
Ans. had been shot
3. There ………….. (be) silence in the room as Gandhiji …………. (breathe) his last.
Ans. was; breathed
4. They …………. (calm) a little when it …………. (announce) that they ………… (will) ………… (allow) to see Gandhiji before the funeral.
Ans. calmed; was announced; would; be allowed
5. We ……….. (listen) to the broadcast ………… (tell) the people of India that their Bapu ………… (be) no more.
Ans. listened; telling; was
My Own True Family
1. Once I ……….. (creep) in an oakwood-I ………….. (be) …………. (look) for a stag.
Ans. crept; was; looking
2. Then she ………….. (begin) to cackle and I …………. (begin) to …………. (quake).
Ans. began; began; quake
3. She ………… (open) up her little bag and I …………. (come) twice awake.
Ans. opened; came
4. We …………. (chop) down, we ………… (tear) up, you ………… (do) not …………. (blink) an eye.
Ans. are chopped; are torn; do; blink do i blink
5. When I ……….. (come) out of the oakwood, back to human company, my walk ………… (be) the walk of a human child, but my heart …………. (be) a tree.
Ans. came; was; was
Our Runaway Kite
1. We just ………… (have) to ………. (make) the most of each other, and we did.
Ans. had; make
2. In winter, when the harbour …………… (be) frozen over, we all …………. (move) over to the mainland.
Ans. is; move
3. Of course Claude and I …………. (will) …………. (like) to have someone to play with us.
Ans. would; have liked
4. To be sure, Father …………. (not seem) to have any relations except us.
Ans. didn’t seem
5. Was it because we ………… (live) on an island?
Ans. lived
6. Once we ………… (ask) Father about it, but he ………. (look) so sorrowful that we ………… (wish) we hadn’t.
Ans. asked; looked; wished
7. He ……….. (say) it …………… (be) all his fault. Claude and I …………. (not understand) what he ………… (mean).
Ans. said; was; didn’t understand ; meant
8. We …………. (have) a kite that ………… (be) big and …………. (cover) with lovely red paper.
Ans. had; was; covered
9. We …………. (paste) gold tinsel stars all over it and ………… (write) our names full on it-Claude Leete and Philippa Leete, Big Half Moon lighthouse.
Ans. pasted; had written
10. And there ………… (be) Claude, …………. (stand) with a bit of cord in his hand, ………… (look) foolish.
Ans. was; standing; looking
B. Choose the correct alternative to identify the tense of the verbs of the following sentences:
Father’s Help
1. “Have you no school today?”
A. Simple Present
B. Simple Past
C. Present Perfect
D. Past Perfect
2. Swami was lying on the bench in mother’s room.
A. Present Perfect
B. Past Perfect
C. Present Continuous
D. Past Continuous
3. Does he always scold the students?
A. Simple Present
B. Simple Past
C. Simple Future
D. Present Perfect
4. He will scold me if I say so.
A. Simple Present, Simple Past
B. Simple Past
C. Simple Future, Simple Present
D. Future Continuous
5. Samuel was teaching arithmetic.
A. Present Continuous
B. Future Continuous
C. Present Perfect Continuous
D. Past Continuous
6. He had never met anyone as good as Samuel.
A. Present Perfect
B. Past Perfect
C. Present Perfect Continuous
D. Past Perfect Continuous
7. The teacher was inspecting the home lessons.
A. Present Perfect
B. Past Perfect
C. Present Continuous
D. Past Continuous
The Passing Away of Bapu
8. Gandhiji had been shot on his way to a prayer meeting.
A. Past Perfect
B. Present Perfect
C. Future Prefect
D. Present Perfect Continuous
9. There was an unnatural silence.
A. Present Indefinite
B. Past Indefinite
C. Future Indefinite
D. Past Perfect
10. We had walked with Bapu over the rough and smooth of India’s recent history.
A. Simple Present
B. Simple Past
C. Simple Future
D. Past Perfect
11. It is to think with clarity and closely look at all that is around you, from small insects to the horizon in the distance.
A. Simple Present
B. Simple Past
C. Simple Future
D. Present Perfect
12. I had not directly walked with Gandhiji, gone to prison at his call or made any sacrifice for my country.
A. Future Perfect
B. Present Perfect
C. Past Perfect
D. Past Indefinite
Our Runaway Kite
13. This is what I want to tell you about.
A. Simple Present
B. Present Continuous
C. Present Perfect
D. Present Perfect Continuous
14. Of course Claude and I would have liked to have someone to play with us.
A. Simple Past
B. Present Perfect Continuous
C. Past Continuous
D. Future Perfect
15. They have been here ever since.
A. Simple Present
B. Present Perfect
C. Past Perfect
D. Simple Past
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