Choose the grammatically correct sentences from the options below:
(A) It is high time the municipality repairs the road outside our school.
(B) The players had been practising for three hours when the rain stopped the match.
(C) I did not saw your message until the next morning.
(D) This time next week, we will be travelling to Ooty with our cousins.
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) It is high time the municipality repairs the road outside our school. — Incorrect.
- After “It is high time”, the verb takes its past form, even though the meaning is about now.
- So we say “repaired”, not “repairs”.
- The phrase means the work should have been done already.
- Correct form: It is high time the municipality repaired the road outside our school.
(B) The players had been practising for three hours when the rain stopped the match. — Correct.
- The practice went on for some time before another past event, the rain.
- Such an action takes the past perfect continuous: had been + verb-ing.
(C) I did not saw your message until the next morning. — Incorrect.
- “Did” already shows the past.
- So the verb after “did not” stays in its base form: see, not saw.
- Correct form: I did not see your message until the next morning.
(D) This time next week, we will be travelling to Ooty with our cousins. — Correct.
- The trip will be going on at a set time in the future.
- Such an action takes the future continuous: will be + verb-ing.