Question

1. Use the verb to be in the present tense to complete the excerpt below
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This island_____a very singular one. It consists of little else than the sea sand, and______about three miles long. Its breadth at no point exceeds a quarter of a mile. It______separated from the mainland by a scarcely perceptible creck [...]. The vegetation, as might be supposed,______scant, or at least dwarfish. No trees of any magnitude______to be seen. Near the western extremity, where Fort Moultrie stands, and where______some miserable frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may be found, indeed, the bristly palmetto; but the whole island, with the exception of this western point, and a line of hard, white beach on the sea-coast,______covered with a dense undergrowth of the sweet myrtle so much prized by the horticulturists of England.​

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This island___is__a very singular one. It consists of little else than the sea sand, and__is____about three miles long. Its breadth at no point exceeds a quarter of a mile. It____is__separated from the mainland by a scarcely perceptible creck [...]. The vegetation, as might be supposed,__is____scant, or at least dwarfish. No trees of any magnitude__are____to be seen. Near the western extremity, where Fort Moultrie stands, and where__are____some miserable frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may be found, indeed, the bristly palmetto; but the whole island, with the exception of this western point, and a line of hard, white beach on the sea-coast,__is____covered with a dense undergrowth of the sweet myrtle so much prized by the horticulturists of England.​