{"id":509,"date":"2015-02-14T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2015-02-14T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T10:01:13","slug":"complete-the-given-news-item-cbse-class-x-grammar-worksheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/complete-the-given-news-item-cbse-class-x-grammar-worksheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete the Given News Item | CBSE Class X Grammar Worksheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Complete the given news item.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. A taxi driver \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 with a pistol and live cartridges outside a hotel in Chennai on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">a) arrested<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">b) was arrested<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">c) has arrested<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">d) is arrested<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">e) is being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: b) <strong>was arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Explanation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Option a) arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here the taxi driver isn\u2019t the doer. Something is done to him. So, we require a passive verb here.<\/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 when we say when something happened in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Option c) has arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The taxi driver has not arrested anybody. He was arrested. So this option is not possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Option d) is arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We do not use the simple present tense to say that something happened at a particular point of time in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Option e) is being arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The present continuous form is not used to state that something happened in the past.<\/p>\n<p>2. The Equal Streets Movement \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 to give pedestrians and cyclists unrestricted access to streets for a few hours in the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">a) aims<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">b) is aimed<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">c) has been aimed<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">d) was aimed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer: a) aims<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Explanation<\/h3>\n<p>We use the simple present tense to talk about facts.<\/p>\n<p>The verb \u2018is aimed\u2019 is possible here but it should be followed by the preposition \u2018at\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Equal Streets Movement is aimed at giving pedestrians and cyclists unrestricted access to streets for a few hours in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the given news item. 1. A taxi driver \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 with a pistol and live cartridges outside a hotel in Chennai on Friday. a) arrested b) was arrested c) has arrested d) 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":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbse-grammar-worksheets-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}