Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of the following sentence. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your response. Otherwise, ‘No improvement’ will be the answer.

The people regarded him as an impostor and will have been calling him a villain.

  1. would be calling

  2. called

  3. would have called

  4. No improvement

  5. .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as there is tense agreement between the verb ‘called’ and the sentence which is in past tense.

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