Put the bracketed words in the right tense or form

Answers: have been travelling (or have travelled) — built — follow — write — readers — have never felt.

Move EN-LANG-02. For two years now → present perfect (continuous); a finished past action → built; habits (every morning) → present simple; noun of person after a number → readers; never inside a present perfect → have never felt.

Answers: pollution — reported — has improved — cautious — chemical — was dumped.

Move EN-LANG-02. The … of the river → noun pollution; was first … by → passive participle reported; Since then → present perfect; after remain → adjective cautious; before waste → adjective chemical; twenty years ago with an undergoing subject → past passive was dumped.

Idea: here the bracketed verb is rarely the problem — the word just before it is. avoid, stop (= no longer do) and look forward to take -ing; persuade, enable and allow + object take to + base; let and make + object take the bare base. The other brackets are fixed by the time markers (two years ago, for three seasons) and by must, which has no past form.

1. (run) → running — avoid + -ing; the final consonant doubles (run → running).
2. (join) → to join — persuade someone to do something.
3. (must) → had to — the story is in the past (The first weeks were hard) and must has no past tense: its past is had to. In the same sentence, stop … to get my breath back is stop to do = stop in order to do.
4. (give) → give — let someone do: bare infinitive, so the base stays as it is (let him give up).
5. (finish) → to finish — enable someone to do.
6. (stop) → stopped — Two years ago → past simple; stop + -ing (stopped needing) means he no longer needed it.
7. (compete) → has competed (or has been competing) — for three seasons with Today → present perfect, singular subject he.
8. (represent) → representing — in look forward to, to is a preposition, so the verb takes -ing (never to represent).

What is marked. 0.5 per bracket (8 × 0.5 = 4 marks). to join written join, or representing written represent, loses the half point even though the verb is the right one; musted or had must scores zero.

Idea: three patterns decide this paragraph. A future seen from a past reporting verb (announced that, told … that) moves back to would + base; in an unreal condition the if-clause takes the past and the main clause would + base; and when the subject undergoes the action (a plant is built, a project is financed) the verb is passive, with by + agent when the doer is named.

1. (build) → would be built — reported future after announced that (his words were « will be built »), passive because the plant does not build itself.
2. (have) → had — unreal condition: the main clause we would not need shows the pattern If + past, would + base; the dams are only a quarter full, so the rain is imaginary.
3. (expect) → is expected — be expected to + base: the plant is the subject of the forecast, which is today's, so present passive.
4. (finance) → has been financed — Since the contract was signed → present perfect; passive, with the agent introduced by by a public bank and two private investors.
5. (finish) → would finish (would have finished is also accepted) — reported future after told the council that; they are the engineers, so the voice is active.
6. (be) → were (was is accepted) — unreal condition again: the farmers imagine a lower price.
7. (use) → would use — main clause of the same unreal condition.

What is marked. 0.5 per bracket (7 × 0.5 = 3.5 marks). will be built after announced is the classic loss: it was the director's own tense, not the tense of the report.

Idea: no tense here: every bracket is a base to derive. Look at the slot first — after find the idea or is an adjective, before an adjective an adverb, between a new and campaign a noun — then at the clue that fixes degree or sense: one of the → superlative, than → comparative, yet and wrongly → a negative prefix.

1. (simple) → simplest — one of the + superlative + plural noun; a short adjective takes -est.
2. (comfort) → uncomfortable — find the idea + adjective; yet opposes the idea to saving a life, so the negative prefix un- is required.
3. (inform) → information — a noun used in front of campaign (an information campaign); -ation turns the verb into a noun. The adjective informative also fits the slot and is accepted.
4. (low) → lower — comparative forced by than it was ten years ago; much strengthens a comparative.
5. (danger) → dangerous — adjective after is: noun + -ous.
6. (legal) → illegal — the belief is wrong (wrongly believe) and goes further than dangerous (or even), so the negative form: il- before l.
7. (complete) → completely — adverb modifying the adjective safe.

What is marked. 0.5 per bracket (7 × 0.5 = 3.5 marks). The right class with the wrong prefix (unlegal, inlegal) or a misspelt suffix (dangerus) scores zero.

Idea: before conjugating, find the real subject and count it. A gerund subject (Sleeping fewer than seven hours) is singular; research and advice are uncountable, so singular and never with -s; the number of + plural noun takes a singular verb; each takes a singular verb; one of the is followed by a plural noun. The time markers do the rest.

1. (Sleep) → Sleeping — the subject of the sentence is an action: gerund, with a capital letter because it opens the sentence.
2. (be) → is — a gerund subject is singular (Sleeping … is), even when the phrase ends on a plural (hours).
3. (show) → has shown — for decades → present perfect; research is uncountable, so has, not have.
4. (survey) → surveyed — In 2023 → past simple.
5. (rise) → has risen — since the previous survey → present perfect; the subject is the number, singular, not teenagers; rise is irregular (rose, risen).
6. (reason) → reasons — one of the main + plural noun; the verb is agrees with one.
7. (receive) → receives — each participant is singular; now describes the current practice → present simple with -s.
8. (advise) → advice — a noun after the; advice is uncountable (never advices) and takes a singular verb (it gives is simple); advise with an s is the verb.

What is marked. 0.5 per bracket (8 × 0.5 = 4 marks). have shown, have risen or advices each lose the half point: the tense is right, the agreement is not.