Take a look at the sentence again:
Without stopping for breath, Mervina, the neighborhood gossip, __________
Kishana up on the neighborhood news, including Sherry's disastrous dinner
party, where the frog tongue soup sent five guests to the local emergency
room.
The sentence requires the simple past of catch, an irregular verb. Caught is the simple past form.
| Verb | Simple Present | Simple Past | Past Participle |
| catch | catch(es) | caught | caught |
Cought, the form you chose, is a spelling error. Before you continue, review the rules for irregular verbs.
Try again to escape Grammar Hell!