Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form.<\/p>\n
The sampling sites were up to 4 miles below the ocean’s surface. To catch deep-sea creatures, the team \u2026\u2026\u2026..1\u2026\u2026\u2026.. a scoop to the ocean floor. Before this expedition, researchers \u2026\u2026\u2026..2\u2026\u2026\u2026.. that few creatures would be able to live in the harsh Antarctic Ocean conditions. But the scientists \u2026\u2026\u20263\u2026\u2026\u2026. in for a surprise. They \u2026\u2026\u20264\u2026\u2026\u2026.. unexpected diversity among deep-sea creatures. What’s more, many of these creatures had never before \u2026\u2026\u20265\u2026\u2026\u2026… For example, of the 674 species of isopods \u2026\u2026\u2026.6\u2026\u2026\u2026.. up by the team, 585 were new to science.<\/p>\n
1. a) lowering; b) have lowered; c) lowered; d) had lowered<\/p>\n
2. a) have thought; b) had thought; c) thinking; d) has thought<\/p>\n
3. a) are; b) were; c) have been; d) had been<\/p>\n
4. a) have found; b) found; c) were finding; d) have been<\/p>\n
5. a) seen; b) being seen; c) been seen; d) saw<\/p>\n
6. a) picked; b) had picked; c) picking; d) pick<\/p>\n
The sampling sites were up to 4 miles below the ocean’s surface. To catch deep-sea creatures, the team lowered<\/strong> a scoop to the ocean floor. Before this expedition, researchers had thought<\/strong> that few creatures would be able to live in the harsh Antarctic Ocean conditions. But the scientists were<\/strong> in for a surprise. They found<\/strong> unexpected diversity among deep-sea creatures. What’s more, many of these creatures had never before been seen<\/strong>. For example, of the 674 species of isopods picked<\/strong> up by the team, 585 were new to science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form. The sampling sites were up to 4 miles below the ocean’s surface. To catch deep-sea creatures, the team \u2026\u2026\u2026..1\u2026\u2026\u2026.. a scoop to the ocean floor....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[113,119],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-10-worksheets","tag-class-10-grammar-worksheets","tag-tenses-worksheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}