Verbs ending in 'ence' can be used in three ways. '-enced' as past tense, e.g. 'U.S. is influenced the decisions of France'. '-Enced' can be used as a past participle, i.e. an adjective in past tense and passive voice. E.g. 'experienced copy-writer'; verbs of passive voice in future tense e.g. 'will be influenced by'.
List of past tense/past participle forms of verbs ending in 'enced'
commenced
crossreferenced
evidenced
experienced
fenced
inconvenienced
inexperienced
influenced
recommenced
referenced
sentenced
sequenced
silenced
unfenced
uninfluenced
unreferenced
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Here is a quiz based on sentences which use the verb '-enced' in both ways.
Fill up the blanks, selecting appropriate words from the Choice Box.
SELECTION BOX:
commenced
experienced
influenced
recommenced
silenced
QUESTION BOX: *
1.*Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much ____ by the former as the latter- Paxton Hood ANSWER .
2.* That conduct will be continued by our fears which ____ in our resentment ANSWER .
3.* Ask the ____ rather than the learned(Arabic ) ANSWER .
4.*Let wicked reports be ____. ANSWER .
5.*I have never known a general practitioner right in his diagnosis yet: Bring them a perfectly simple case; and they diagnose cancer, and arthritis, and appendicitis, and every other itis, when any really ____ surgeon can see that it's a plain case of blood-poisoning. (Doctor's Dilemma of Shaw) ANSWER .
6. * I quickly ____that monitor by two or three specious reasons, which served to satisfy and reconcile me to myself. (Vicar of Wakefield) ANSWER .
7.*’ Nor could I for my life see how the creation of the world had any thing to do with the business I was talking of; but it was sufficient to shew me that he was a man of letters, and I now ____him the more. (Vicar of Wakefield) ANSWER .
8.* Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, ____nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom. ANSWER .
9.*Oliver, just hearing enough to know that some allusion was being made to his mother, ____kicking, with a violence that rendered every other sound inaudible. ANSWER .
10.*He had fully comprehended that no personal influence could possibly save him, that he was virtually ____ by the millions. (A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens). ANSWER .
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