Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
It was my second year at boarding school. I was sitting on platform No. 8 (1)______ Ambala station, waiting for the north-bound train. My parents (2)______ me old enough to travel on my own. I (3)______ by bus to Ambala early in the evening. Now, (4)______ was a long wait till my train (5)______. Most of the time, I had been (6)______ up and down the platform, (7)______ at the bookstall, or feeding broken biscuits to stray dogs. (8)______ a train arrived, it would become (9)______. As the carriage doors opened, people would swoop down (10)______ the nervous little ticket collector at the gate.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 3.
Option 1: had travelled
Option 2: am travelling
Option 3: was travelling
Option 4: have travel
Correct Answer: had travelled
Solution : The first option is correct.
- The past perfect is a verb tense used to talk about actions that were completed before some point in time in the past.
- The structure is given as follows: Subject + had + past participle form of the verb + object .
- Since the event has already taken place, the subject travelling to Ambala, had travelled will be used in the third blank.
Therefore, the correct answer is, had travelled .
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