Tenses Worksheet For Classes 9 And 10

Test your understanding tenses with this grammar worksheet. Complete the given passage with an appropriate verb form. Choose your answers from the options given in the brackets.

Stonehenge …………………… (mystified / has mystified / mystifies) visitors for thousands of years. Somehow, about 4,600 years ago, people ……………………. (manage / managed / have managed) to haul stones weighing in several tones across southern England to a site on the Salisbury Plain. There, they put together the stones and …………………….. (erect / erected / have erected) a large circular structure.

The purpose of Stonehenge ………………………. (was / has been / had been) one of the biggest mysteries. Was the Stonehenge a temple, a burial ground or was it an astronomy site?

Scientists and historians have long wondered how people ………………………. (built / build / have built) Stonehenge and what its purpose was. Now, recent discoveries …………………………. (offer / offered / offers) some answers. Scientists from the University of Sheffield in England and their coworkers ……………………… (propose / proposes / proposing) that the structure was part of a religious complex ………………………… (dedicating / dedicated) to the dead.

Solution

Stonehenge has mystified visitors for thousands of years. Somehow, about 4,600 years ago, people managed to haul stones weighing in several tones across southern England to a site on the Salisbury Plain. There, they put together the stones and erected a large circular structure.

The purpose of Stonehenge has been one of the biggest mysteries. Was the Stonehenge a temple, a burial ground or was it an astronomy site?

Scientists and historians have long wondered how people built Stonehenge and what its purpose was. Now, recent discoveries offer some answers. Scientists from the University of Sheffield in England and their coworkers propose that the structure was part of a religious complex dedicated to the dead.