{"id":492,"date":"2015-02-04T03:35:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2015-02-04T03:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:35:57","slug":"complete-the-news-item-cbse-class-x-grammar-worksheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/complete-the-news-item-cbse-class-x-grammar-worksheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete the news item | CBSE Class X grammar worksheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Complete the given news item.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Mehdi Biswas, a 24 year old man working for a multinational company, \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. on Saturday on charges of being the voice of ISIS on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">a) is arrested<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">b) was arrested<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">c) had arrested<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">d) have been arrested<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">e) has arrested<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer: b) was arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Explanation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Option a) is arrested<\/strong><br \/>\nThe simple present tense is not used to talk about something that happened in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Option b) was arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Was arrested\u2019 is the passive form of the active verb \u2018arrested\u2019. We use the simple past tense to say that something happened in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Option c) had arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The verb \u2018had arrested\u2019 is in the active voice, but we require a passive verb here because Mehdi Biswas didn\u2019t do anything. Something was done to him \u2013 he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Option d) have been arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Have been arrested\u2019 is the passive form of the active verb \u2018have arrested\u2019. We do not use the present perfect tense when we say when something took place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Option e) has arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We do not use the present perfect tense when we say when something took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the given news item. 1. Mehdi Biswas, a 24 year old man working for a multinational company, \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. on Saturday on charges of being the voice of ISIS on Twitter. a) is arrested&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbse-grammar-worksheets-2","tag-cbse-class-x-grammar-worksheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}