Fill in the blanks.
1Six years ..............., Alice, a French woman, left her job and accompanied her husband to India.
Wrong!
Use "ago" to count back from now or from the time of reporting.
2After moving to India, Alice decided to do something different from what she ............... doing and started teaching blind children aged two to five.
Wrong!
Use "had been" for an activity that was already in progress before Alice changed her work.
3Alice not only volunteers with her own services; she ............... other French nationals in Mumbai and gets them involved in the school’s activities.
Wrong!
Use "also emails" to add a second action after "not only".
4Tata Motors ............... into a definitive agreement with Ford on March 26 to acquire the two British luxury brands, Jaguar and Land Rover, for an estimated 2.3 billion dollars.
Wrong!
Use "entered" because the sentence gives a finished past time, "on March 26".
5The finance minister said that the country’s economy ............... at the slowest pace in four years in the next 12 months as a result of a global slowdown.
Wrong!
Use "may grow" to report a possible future result in the next 12 months.
6According to scientists, black carbon, ............... from biomass burning, diesel engine exhaust, and cooking fires, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates.
Wrong!
Use "emitted" because black carbon receives the action of being released from these sources.
7The US space shuttle Endeavour ............... successfully in Florida after the longest mission of its kind to the International Space Station.
Wrong!
Use "has landed" to report a recent completed event with present relevance.
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- Six years ago, Alice, a French woman, left her job and accompanied her husband to India.
- After moving to India, Alice decided to do something different from what she had been doing and started teaching blind children aged two to five.
- Alice not only volunteers with her own services; she also emails other French nationals in Mumbai and gets them involved in the school’s activities.
- Tata Motors entered into a definitive agreement with Ford on March 26 to acquire the two British luxury brands, Jaguar and Land Rover, for an estimated 2.3 billion dollars.
- The finance minister said that the country’s economy may grow at the slowest pace in four years in the next 12 months as a result of a global slowdown.
- According to scientists, black carbon, emitted from biomass burning, diesel engine exhaust, and cooking fires, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates.
- The US space shuttle Endeavour has landed successfully in Florida after the longest mission of its kind to the International Space Station.