Q4Comprehension2 Marks10 May 2026
Passage
Read the excerpt given below and fill in the blanks with those forms of the verbs which best fit the passage from the options provided. Your chosen answer should maintain the tense consistency of the excerpt. The sun [i] _____ through the window, warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees. Thomas Lynde—a meek little man whom Avonlea people called "Rachel Lynde's husband"—was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to [ii] _____ his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables. Mrs. Rachel knew that he ought because she [iii] _____ him tell Peter Morrison the evening before in William J. Blair's store over at Carmody that he meant to sow his turnip seed the next afternoon. Peter [iv] _____ him, of course, for Matthew Cuthbert had never been known to volunteer information about anything in his whole life. And yet here was Matthew Cuthbert, at half-past three on the afternoon of a busy day, placidly driving over the hollow and up the hill. Now, where was Matthew Cuthbert going and why [v] _____ there? Excerpted from: Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, 2008. Project Gutenberg. Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Find the appropriate verb form to fill in blank [v].