The chief guest addressed the gathering what’s the tense

Addressed

Explanation:

Tense is the form of a verb that shows the time something happened, or is going to happen. Present tense: things that are true when the words are spoken or written. Example: She goes to school. In this sentence, goes shows that it is a present tense.

a. "to practice" is the best phrase to complete the sentence.

explanation:

during the summer, she likes to practice her soccer skills so that she is ready to play in the fall.

(note that : all the other options "the practicing of", "practice for" and "to do a practice on" are inappropriate as they make the sentence grammatically incorrect.)

answer

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