Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the weather warning given by the IMD.
IMD on Sunday __________ a red alert for several districts in coastal Maharashtra in view of the extremely severe cyclonic storm Biparjoy gushing over the Arabian Sea.
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-15 07:12 · grounding rag
Model Answer
(C) issued
The sentence refers to a past event (last Sunday), so the simple past tense "issued" is correct.
Explanation
The time marker "on Sunday" indicates a completed past action, making simple past tense the only grammatically correct choice. "Will issue" and "will be issuing" are future tenses; "is issuing" is present continuous — all incorrect here.