Choose the grammatically correct sentences from the options below:
(A) As a child, Tanvi used to spending her summer holidays at her grandmother’s farm near Nashik.
(B) No sooner had the umpire raised his finger than the packed stands fell silent.
(C) By next March, Mrs Rao will be teaching chemistry in this school for twenty years.
(D) The truck ahead is swaying badly under its load of sugarcane, so it is going to tip over.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (B) and (D) only
(A) As a child, Tanvi used to spending her summer holidays at her grandmother’s farm near Nashik. — Incorrect.
- “Used to” for a past habit takes the base form of the verb (spend), not the -ing form.
- Correct form: As a child, Tanvi used to spend her summer holidays at her grandmother’s farm near Nashik.
(B) No sooner had the umpire raised his finger than the packed stands fell silent. — Correct.
- In “No sooner ... than”, the first action takes the past perfect with “had” before the subject (“had the umpire raised”).
- The second action takes the simple past (“fell”).
(C) By next March, Mrs Rao will be teaching chemistry in this school for twenty years. — Incorrect.
- An action that will have gone on for a length of time up to a future point takes the future perfect continuous: will have been + V-ing.
- The clue is “By next March” with “for twenty years”.
- Correct form: By next March, Mrs Rao will have been teaching chemistry in this school for twenty years.
(D) The truck ahead is swaying badly under its load of sugarcane, so it is going to tip over. — Correct.
- “Be going to” is used when something we can see now shows that an event is coming.
- Here the sign is “is swaying badly”.