Question

Choose a sentence about yourself in the appropriate tense form, using the idea given below:
Something you haven’t done recently.
You: __________________________
a) I wasn’t been to the cinema recently.
b) I hadn’t been to the cinema recently.
c) I didn’t be to the cinema recently.
d) I haven’t been to the cinema recently.

Answer 1

Hint: A verb is a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence. The verb is the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence.

Complete answer:
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:
Option (a.), ' I wasn’t been to the cinema recently', refers to ‘wasn’t been’ which is grammatically incorrect as two verbs in the same past tense cannot be present in the same sentence. Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect.
Option (b.), ‘I hadn’t been to the cinema recently', refers to ‘hadn’t’ and ‘been’, which are both in the past tense. Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as two verbs in the past tense cannot coexist in the same sentence.
Option (c.), ‘I didn’t be to the cinema recently', refers to the verb ‘be’, which means ‘have the quality of being’. Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as using the verb ‘be’ in this sentence does not make any literal sense.
Option (d.), ‘I haven’t been to the cinema recently', refers to ‘haven’t’ and ‘been’ which are two verbs in the present and past tense respectively.
Therefore, option (d.) is correct as the whole sentence is grammatically correct in this option.

Note:
In this question, it would be helpful for the students to recall the concept of tenses. Tense is a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. There are three tenses - Past, present, and future.