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If the writer decides to write the article in the present, which form of the verb will he use in the sentences below?


"At the scene on Tuesday afternoon next to Munster Square, which (1)_______in the middle of a number of tall council blocks, a large police cordon (2)__________in place and (3) __________across a number of nearby roads. Residents (4) the cordon (5}__________so large because the boy (6)__________________"