English Basic - Tenses, Form of verbs

Identify the mistake:

The boy's weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him lose his balance.

• weight of

• combined

• caused

• lose

 

Identify the mistake:

She reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shaked him until his teeth rattled.

• reached

• picked

• shaked

• rattled

 

Identify the mistake:

She heated some lima beans and beef she had in the icebox, made the cocoa, and sets the table.

• heated

• had

• made

• sets

 

Identify the mistake:

I had just finished walk a half mile from my home to his

• just

• walk

• mile

• his

 

Identify the mistake:

Before his marriage, Maulvi Abul Barkat, alias Abul, used to living in comfort, even pomp.

• Before his marriage

• alias

• used

• living

 

Identify the mistake:

Although we had arranged to have his son's tonsils remove, he would not consent to the operation.

• had arranged

• have

• remove

• would

 

Identify the mistake:

If I am lying, the curse of Allah  be on me and  may I be  drown in some pond.

• lying

• be

• may

• drown

 

Identify the mistake:

She is living in Lahore since she came back from the states.

• is

• since

• came

• states

 

Identify the mistake:

You ought not to lie about it when you knew that it would hurt her.

• to lie

• about

• would

• hurt

 

Identify the mistake:

He had lived to rise a family of five children.

• lived

• rise

• of

• children