My uncle ______ until he was forty –five. 

  The increasing number of cars on the road _______ traffic. This was the reason why we couldn’t get here on time.

Yesterday, I came across my former classmate, but his name ________ me, which made me embarrassed.

Linda’s parents died when she was a baby, and she was _________by her aunt.

 Though ________ in San Francisco, Dave Mitchell had always preferred to record the plain facts of small-town life.