Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words
Our maths teacher ______ us a lot of homework last week but he______ us very much so far this week.

Answer 1

Hint: Tenses refer to a verb-based method for indicating the time, and often the continuation or completion, of an event or state in relation to the time of speaking. The tenses are divided into three-time phases: The past, the present and the future. There are four types of tenses: simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous.

Complete answer:
Our maths teacher gave us a lot of homework last week but he has not given us very much so far this week.
The sentence indicates the use of the verb ‘give’ which means that the tense form of ‘give’ is to be used in the sentence to fill the blanks. As the first part of the sentence is referring to the time frame of last week, therefore, we will use the past form of ‘give’ in simple tense. We use Simple past tense because the event has happened before this week. The second part of the sentence reflects the time frame of the present week therefore we will use the present form of ‘give’ to fill the sentence. Now here there is a connection between the present and the past and the action of time is before now but is not specified, therefore, we will use the perfect present tense to fill the blank.

 Thus, the first blank is filled with the simple past form of ‘give’, i.e., ‘gave’ and the second black is filled with the perfect present form of ‘give’, i.e., ‘has not given’.

Note: We used Simple past tense when the action has happened before the present action and we used the perfect present tense because the action has happened in the present but the time is not specified.