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The new shelving would protect the maps, some of which are unusually wide, and ______ floor space.
Which verb form completes the sentence?
A: Would does not take the past form saved here.
B: The participle saving would need be or another structure.
C — correct: Would governs protect and save; both are plain forms.
D: The singular subject does not license saves after shared would.
The courier may collect the envelopes that arrived after lunch and ______ them before closing time.
Which verb form completes the sentence?
A — correct: May governs collect and deliver. The relative clause that arrived after lunch does not change that pattern.
B: Arrived is past tense inside a modifier; it does not require delivered in the main predicate.
C: A modal takes deliver, not delivers, even with a singular subject.
D: May delivering lacks the required plain-form auxiliary be.
The apprentice can choose the wood after consulting the drawings, and the supervisor ______ the final selection every Friday.
Which completion gives the new clause its own appropriate finite verb?
A: The new singular subject supervisor requires reviews in this habitual-present clause; can belongs to the preceding clause.
B: A bare participle does not anchor the new clause.
C: An infinitive does not supply its finite predicate.
D — correct: And introduces a new clause with its own subject. Reviews agrees with supervisor and expresses the stated routine.
The machine must fold each sheet along the marked line, despite small variations in thickness, and ______ the crease flat.
Which verb form completes the sentence?
A: The modal must does not govern the past form pressed.
B — correct: The shared modal must governs fold and press; the intervening despite phrase changes neither form.
C: Pressing cannot follow must without a suitable auxiliary.
D: Presses is a finite present form, not the plain form selected by must.