Question

Choose the most suitable underlined words.
1)After many enquiries ,she WAS ABLE TO/COULD discover the truth about his whereabouts.
2)I might/could have known that things would work out all right for him. They always do!
3)Boot MAY/MIGHT easily have spent his life writing his country life column,had he not been mistaken for someone else.
4) We COULD GET/COULD HAVE GOT there earlier but we decided to take a detour.
5) You OUGHT NOT TO HAVE/OUGHT TO NOT HAVE played such a cruel practical joke.
6) Why weren't you working when i rang?You should have WORKED/BEEN WORKING
7)I MIGHT/COULD as well pack up and go home now that i've done my job
8)Where's my newspaper ? It SHOULD HAVE BEEN DELIVERED / SHOULD BE DELIVERED by now
9) If they've imprisoned him, he CAN'T/MUSTN'T be feeling very good
10) He MIGHT/COULD have told them where the President was, but he decided to keep silent

Answer 1

1)was able to
2)could
3)might
4)could get
5)ought not to have
6)beenworking
7)could
8)should have been delivered
9)can't
10)could