You have to fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word.
For example, “use” and “used” are used in quite different sentences.
You can’t say, “When I was at school, I use to love art.” Because “When I was” suggests that the sentence is in the past tense. And the term “Use” is used in the present time. On the other hand, the term “Used” is used in the past tense. So “Used” is the eight term to use in that sentence. “When I was at school, I used to love art.”
Let’s take an example from your textbook, “I could not remember where I ___(leave) my paints and sketchbooks!”
So what it is telling us here is we have to fill in the blank for “leave”. But we can’t say “I could not remember where I leave my paints and sketchbooks!” Even though this sentence does make sense, if we read all of your text in the textbook, it would make more sense that the person could not remember where he had already put (before hand)=past tense his supplies. And it is telling us to do something with the word “leave” for the sentence to be correct. So we figured that this sentence is supposed to be in past tense. But the word “leave” is actually in the present time or future time, meaning “Right now, or Later”, this is not past tense. Because we can only put the straight out basic form of “leave” in this sentence if the sentence went like “I cannot remember where I will leave...” But this obviously doesn’t make sense. We need to find past tense. The past tense for the word “leave” is “left”. Now let’s check it will the sentence “I cannot remember where I left my paints and sketchbooks.”
On more example? While the visitors___(look around) the paintings, I held a small exhibition in the local art gallery.”
We have to find clues that tell us what tense the sentence is in. As I skimmed the sentence, I found the term, “I held”, “held”. I know that “I held” is in the past tense, if it was in the present tense that it would be “I am holding.” And if it was it the future tense, it would be “I will be holding”. So here we know it is the past tense. Meaning the word that we fill in the blank has to be the past tense. “look around” the basic form of the word that they put in parenthesis for you to have some form of reference, is not in the past tense. It is in the present and future tense, because we can say “I will look around” and we can only say “I look around” if we saw that the author wrote “I am holding” not “I held”. So to make things simpler, let’s find the past tense of the word “look around”=“looked around”.
Let’s fill in the blank: “While the visitors looked around the paintings, I held a small exhibition in the local art gallery.”
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