Answer:
already ==> ready
Explanation:
The architect was <em>ready</em> to present his design to the construction company.
Answer:
From the given sentence and question, no verb is highlighted, but from the sentence, "If the speaker had been on time, the program would have begun on time", you can see that there is tautology as the word "on time" is used twice in the sentence when it could have been used only once.
Therefore, to correct this tautology, the sentence can be rewritten as: "If the speaker had been on time, the program would have begun early".
As a result of this, there is no incorrect verb form in the sentence, so it is safe to assume that the highlighted verb is correct.
The answer is most logically option C. This is because while the argument does feel like it is backed up with the statistic, there are no other statistics given for other countries. The argument lacks the information needed.
After we had waited for twenty minutes
is the answer ^