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Which form of the verb 'confirm' correctly completes the sentence to conform to the conventions of Standard English?

Cevap:In his 1915 paper on general relativity, Albert Einstein proposed that gravity is not an attractive force between masses but rather a structural curvature of spacetime. Although many physicists initially doubted this radical new model, British astronomer Arthur Eddington 【confirmed】 the theory in 1919 by measuring the deflection of starlight passing near the Sun during a total solar eclipse, providing the first empirical evidence for Einstein's ideas.

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The correct answer is 'confirmed' because the sentence refers to a completed historical action that took place at a specific time in the past.
The simple past tense form 'confirmed' is correct because the sentence describes a completed historical event that occurred at a specific point in the past, indicated by the time marker 'in 1919.' This form also maintains grammatical consistency with other past tense verbs in the passage, such as 'proposed' and 'doubted.'

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1
Identify the temporal context of the sentence containing the blank.
The action occurred in a specific, completed past year (1919).
This helps determine whether the verb should be in the past, present, or future tense.
2
Check the tenses of other verbs in the passage describing the same sequence of events.
The verbs 'proposed' and 'doubted' are in the simple past tense.
Ensuring tense consistency is necessary unless there is a clear reason to shift tenses.
3
Select the appropriate form of the verb 'confirm'.
The simple past tense form 'confirmed' correctly completes the sentence.
It matches the historical timeline and maintains tense consistency with the surrounding past tense verbs.

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