Question 5
Est. 2 min
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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. In an evil hour, my father had received my letter, containing my eloquent and detailed apology for declining a place in the firm, and I (i) ________ summoned home in all haste, his chief ambition being that I should succeed, not merely to his fortune, but to the views and plans by which he (ii) ________ he could extend and perpetuate that wealthy inheritance. I (iii) ________ how deeply my father’s happiness was involved, and with something of his own pertinacity, had formed a determination precisely contrary, not conceiving that I should increase my own happiness by augmenting a fortune which I (iv) ________ was already sufficient. My father cut the matter short: when he was my age, his father (v) ________ him out and settled his legal inheritance on his younger brother, and one of that brother’s sons would take my place if I crossed him any further. Extracted from: Mee, Arthur, and J. A. Hammerton, editors. The World’s Greatest Books: Vol. VIII — Fiction. Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Question
Find the appropriate verb form to fill blank (v).
Comprehension
Medium Difficulty
06 April 2026