The Hinduja Group \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Britain\u2019s iconic Old War Office building, once occupied by Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n
a) was buying<\/p>\n
b) has bought<\/p>\n
c) bought<\/p>\n
d) has been bought<\/p>\n
e) buys<\/p>\n
Answer: b) has bought<\/strong><\/p>\n Option a) was buying<\/strong><\/p>\n The past continuous tense is not possible here. It is used to talk about an action that was going on at a particular point of time in the past.<\/p>\n Option b) has bought<\/strong><\/p>\n We use the present perfect tense to announce recent events.<\/p>\n Option c) bought<\/strong><\/p>\n The simple past tense is possible in this sentence, but we prefer to use the present perfect tense for giving news of recent events.<\/p>\n Option d) has been bought<\/strong><\/p>\n Has been bought is in the passive voice, but we need an active verb here because the Hinduja group is the doer.<\/p>\n Option e) buys<\/strong><\/p>\n The simple present tense is only used to talk about facts and general truths.<\/p>\n India \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. for nearly 30% of the global demand for gold.<\/p>\n a) is accounting<\/p>\n b) accounts<\/p>\n c) accounted<\/p>\n d) has been accounting<\/p>\n e) have been accounting<\/p>\n Answer: option b) accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n Option a) is accounting<\/strong><\/p>\n The present continuous tense is used to talk about actions and situations that are going on at the moment of speaking.<\/p>\n Option b) accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n We use the simple present tense to express facts.<\/p>\n Option c) accounted<\/strong><\/p>\n The simple past tense is not used to talk about facts.<\/p>\n Option d) has been accounting<\/strong><\/p>\n The present perfect continuous tense is not used to talk about facts.<\/p>\n Option e) have been accounting<\/strong><\/p>\n The auxiliary verb \u2018have\u2019 does not agree with the singular noun \u2018India\u2019. Also, perfect continuous tenses are not used to talk about facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question 1 The Hinduja Group \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Britain\u2019s iconic Old War Office building, once occupied by Winston Churchill. a) was buying b) has bought c) bought d) has been bought e) buys Answer: b) has...<\/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-494","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\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Explanation<\/h3>\n
Question 2<\/h3>\n
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