Question

Choose a suitable option to fill in the blank:
‘It started to rain while I was walking home.’
‘Did it? _____________ an umbrella?’
A) Have you had
B) Did you have
C) Will you have
D) Were you having

Answer 1

Hint: Verbs are quite often used in English grammar to indicate or denote the time when an event occurred. Tenses are verbs that take on different forms to indicate the time of an action, event, or condition by changing their form.

Complete answer:
The given sentence is in the past tense, as the clauses "it started to rain" and "while I was walking home" suggests that is the work which has happened in the past.

Option A: 'Have you had' is in the present perfect tense and states an action just completed. But the action has happened in the past in the given question of the context. Thus, Option A is the incorrect answer

Option B is the right answer: 'Did you have is in simple past tense and asks if the person 'had an umbrella'.When we hear the sentence of the verb 'did', refers to the past tense. Hence the given sentence is followed by a present tense verb 'have' and not a past tense verb. Thus, Option B is the best fit for the question.

Option C: 'Will you have' is in future tense whereas the sentence in the question asks about a past action. so, this is also not fit for the sentence. Thus, this is also an incorrect option.

Option D: Were you having' states a continuous action in the past. The event 'to own' or 'to have' is complete within itself. But, it is not in the continuous tense. Hence it does not provide the correct answer for the given sentence.

Hence options A, C and D are wrong. But, option B is the correct answer.

Thus, Option B is the correct answer. Based on the clauses provided in the question of the sentence is to be defined and declared that the action has happened in the past. From the above options to be provided the ‘Did You have’ opts the sentence and gives the completion of a context.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened or existed before now. So, the clauses in the sentence which is the past tense of the form. Hence the context of the option to be filled in to be based on the form of the past verb tenses.