English Grammar Cloze Test
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4. Existentialism as a philosophical movement ---- properly a 20th-century movement, but its major antecedents, Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche ---- long before the rise of existentialism. A) will be / had written B) has been / will write C) is / wrote D) had been / were writing E) was / write
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Hi Dilara, let's look at this English grammar question about verb tenses and identifying the right context for the sentence.
Analyzing Sentence Structure
The sentence states that Existentialism is properly a twentieth-century movement. This is a general fact or a definition of its historical classification.
Part 1:
'Existentialism as a philosophical movement ---- properly a 20th-century movement...'
When we state a general fact or definition, we typically use the simple present tense. So, is seems like a strong candidate for the first blank.
Now let's look at the second part of the sentence which talks about Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
Part 2:
'...its major antecedents, Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche ---- long before the rise of existentialism.'
These two philosophers lived in the nineteenth century, which is indicated by the phrase 'long before'. Actions that happened and finished in the past require the simple past tense.
The simple past of the verb to write is wrote.
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