.— I ____ to your birthday party last Sunday. — Unfortunately, you were out on business.
All the passengers were _______ wounded in the road accident.
Both of my parents prefer _______ news to foreign news when they listen to the radio..
Instead of answering, she ______ smiled.
The patient suffering from cancer looked dead but the faint pulse proved that he was still________.
The continuous rain ______ the harvesting of the wheat crop by two weeks.