Persistent Tenses and Article Quiz-1

Solution: An, is used before words starting with vowels or which sound like vowels. Here, the word honor starts with a consonant but the h is silent and the pronunciation takes the form of vowel. hence we use 'an'.

Explanation: “The” is used when we refer to any noun with specific importance. Here, the highway is a specific one, so we use 'the'.
Since a fact given about the highway, the tense will be simple present tense. hence we use 'is'.

The complete sentence will be We may miss the train will have arrived before we reach the railway station.

The sentence here depicts a future prediction which could happen before another action happens.

So the desired future action takes the future perfect form while the we use 'reach' for the second verb (simple present.

hence we use - will have arrived.

Explanation:

The sentence here says that the subject 'Vimla' was enrolled in the school in which she is still studying. So started in the past but still in the present. This gives us Present perfect tense. So we use 'has been'.
For the next blank, we are specifying the time span, so we use 'the'.

Explanation: The sentence is representing the action that had been finished before any action finished in the past. “Had written” will be used as the sentence is in the past perfect tense. The first action takes past perfect tense while the second action is in simple past.
Had written and allotted time.

Explanation: The sentence is in the past continuous tense because we see that they were in the process of departing when the rain started. So one action was in continuity while the other started happening.

So we use 'were departing'.

And “we” states more than one person, so we will use, “were” in the sentence.

Explanation:

The sentence represents the course of action which is finished before another action in the past and is continued during the second course of action in the past.

So, “arrived” and “had been waiting” will be used as the sentence is in the past perfect continuous tense.

Explanation: The first half of the sentence is representing a course of action which initiated in the past, but it is continuing in the present, so the sentence is in present perfect continuous tense where “has been working” will be used.

And the next half of the sentence, “will retire next month” is in the simple future tense because it talks about the future action.

Explanation:  The sentence is depicting the continuous course of action which is in present and is a continuous action on a regular basis, hence we use present continuous tense.

for the second blank, it says that this action has a counter affect. So, the impact here should be simple present tense since it talks about an effect. So we use 'disrupts'.

Explanation: The sentence indicates that the action said was in the past, for that we will use, “said” and the course of action finished will be in the future, so we will use “will finish.”