Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in the brackets.One evening Chapia saw a tortoise crossing the road. He (i)...........(throw)a stone...

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in the brackets.

One evening Chapia saw a tortoise crossing the road. He (i)...........(throw)a stone at it and in place of a tortoise a stone appeared. This was strange. He never (ii)..............(think)a moving animal could change into a stone. He picked it up and (iii)..........(take) it home. When Rose saw him, she (iv)..........(become)hysterical and so violent that soon the whole family (v)........(is)thrown into a panic.

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i)threw
ii)thought
iii)took
iv)became
v)was

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Githiari answered the question on June 11, 2018 at 16:30

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