Utah Investigators Link Teenager’s 1974 Death to Ted Bundy

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Read the complete sentence and notice the subject, verb form, time reference and word order before answering.

1. Question 1 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

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   The findings, together with the new forensic analysis, ___ investigators to reassess the case.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. have enabled
   2. has enabled
   3. enabling
   4. to have enabled
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   have enabled

   A plural compound subject requires the plural auxiliary verb.

2. Question 2 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

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   Had the evidence been preserved, investigators ___ the case much earlier.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. might have resolved
   2. might resolve
   3. might resolving
   4. might to resolve
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   might have resolved

   Third conditional inversion requires “would have” plus a past participle.

3. Question 3 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

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   The report is significant insofar as it ___ how scientific methods alter historical understanding.

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   1. illustrates
   2. illustrate
   3. illustrating
   4. to illustrate
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   illustrates

   The singular subject requires the third-person singular present form.

4. Question 4 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

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   Only after the related inquiry advanced ___ authorities reconsider the Utah case.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. did
   2. had
   3. were
   4. have
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   did

   Negative-style fronting triggers subject–auxiliary inversion in formal English.

5. Question 5 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

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   The investigators treated the new result as evidence ___ further examination was warranted.

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   1. that
   2. what
   3. which it
   4. of which
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   that

   The noun “evidence” takes a that-clause introducing its content.

6. Question 6 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

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   The conclusion, ___ on developments in forensic science, changed the case’s interpretation.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. based
   2. basing
   3. was based
   4. to base
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   based

   A reduced passive relative clause requires the past participle “based.”

7. Question 7 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

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   The article avoids ___ that the historical event itself has somehow become recent.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. implying
   2. to imply
   3. implied
   4. imply
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   implying

   After “avoid,” formal usage requires a gerund rather than an infinitive.

8. Question 8 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

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   What investigators can establish now is not identical to what they ___ at the time.

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   1. could establish
   2. can establish
   3. could have established
   4. will establish
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   could establish

   The past-tense verb correctly contrasts present knowledge with past capability.

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