Question

______ someone calling my name from within the tunnel. (hear).
Fill in the correct form of the verb that is given in the bracket:
A. hearing
B. hear
C. heard
D. none of these

Answer 1

Hint: Any word that can be used to describe an action, state, or occurrence can be called a verb. It forms the main part of the predicate of a sentence. In other words, verbs are words that describe ‘work’ like hear, talk, drink etc. Now that we know what verbs are, let us move on to their different forms.
In different situations, people have to adjust with their surroundings. Similarly, a verb also must ‘adjust’ itself in different sentences. For example, the only difference between the sentences, ‘I love you’ and ‘I loved you’ is that the speaker (I) loves ‘you’ (to whom it is being spoken) in the former sentence whereas in the latter, the speaker used to love ‘you’ (listener).

Complete answer:
1. Before we move on to find the correct answer, let us first talk about the tense of the sentence given to us in the question. If we look at the sentence, ‘I _ _ _ _ _ _ someone calling my name from within the tunnel.’, we can state that the action of hearing (verb) has been finished by the subject ‘I’. Therefore, this sentence should be in the Simple Past tense as it is indicating that the action (hearing) has been finished.
2. Here we are going to check each option one by one so that we can detect the correct option containing the proper form of the verb.
3. Since the sentence is in Simple Past tense, the past participle form of the verb has to be used. We can see that option C, ‘heard’ is the past participle form of the verb, ‘hear’. Hence, it is the correct answer.
4. The other options like option B, ‘hearing’, option C, ‘hear’ are wrong because they are not the past participle form of the verb ‘hear’.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C’

Note: We use verbs to describe any action, state or occurrence taking place or being done by the subject. Some verbs are ‘walk’, ‘talk’, ‘laugh’, ‘see’, ‘cry’, ‘dance’, ‘play’ and so on. Verbs have different forms that are used in sentences depending on the tense. As this is stated by someone, it can be anticipated that this should be set in a past indefinite tense. It will seem as if someone is telling a story or narration of the past happening.