Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.

Many builders and engineers from other republics began ____ to build new houses in Moscow in $1995$.

• A. helping
• B. would help
• C. helped
• D. shall help
• E. having helped

Answer 1

The correct option is A helping

Gerunds are words that are formed with verbs but act as nouns. Gerunds also at times are seen to end in 'ing'. In this particular sentence, the word in the blank acts a noun thus becoming the subject of the sentence and also like a verb by taking up the object. This means that in the blank, we would need a gerund.

Option A: Is the gerund as the verb behaves as a noun

Option B: Is a verb which is in the future tense. It does not behave as a noun in the sentence.

Option C: It is in the past tense.

Option D: shall help is in the future tense.

Option E it is in the past tense.

Option A is correct.