Using a range of tenses – exercise B
| i is understood | m has not been disclosed |
| j finding | n cannot be estimated |
| k may take | o are |
| l is going | p to value |
This exercise continues to test your ability to use verbs in the correct tense and form. Which ones go where?
It ………….. 9 more than a year …………. 10 the collection and, given its scale, the financial worth of the hoard …………..11.
Leslie Webster, former keeper at the British Museum’s Department of Prehistory and Europe, said: "This ………….. 12 to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries. (It is) absolutely the equivalent of .…………. 13 a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells."
Many of the items in the hoard ………….. 14 warfare paraphernalia, including sword pommel caps and hilt plates, often inlaid with precious stones. The exact location of the discovery ………….. 15 but it ………….. 16 to be near the Lichfield border in South Staffordshire.