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6. It is true that Jim Corbett _________________ (love) animals, but he also
_________________ (kill) many man-eaters.

7. I _________________ (learn) Telugu from a friend who _________________ (hail)
from Andhra Pradesh.
8. The bridge across the river _________________ (build) some two hundred years ago.

9. The wicked people who _________________ (smuggle) brown sugar into the town
_________________ (arrest) yesterday.
10. Last night, the clouds _________________ (thunder) in the sky.

III. Choose the correct form of the verbs to complete the sentences.

1. I _________________ here since morning.
am waiting have been waiting had been waiting

2. It _________________ raining since yesterday.
hasn’t stopped didn’t stop hadn’t

3. I _________________ interested in metaphysics.
am always have always been had always been
4. Where _________________ the sun rise?

does do had
5. I _________________ to a foreign country.

am never gone have never been was never gone
6. I _________________ to a great radio show on the way to work.

listening have listening was listening
7. The major said that it _________________ him great pleasure to be there that evening.

gives gave was giving
8. The stranger asked Alice where she ._________________.

was living lives lived
9. A magistrate asked the accused what _________________ with his hand in the
gentleman’s pocket.

was he doing he was doing had he done
10. The lion told the mouse that he was very weak and that his teeth _________________
out.
fell have fallen had fallen

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