Question

Choose the best answer from (A), (B), (C) and (D), to complete the sentence:
I asked my friend where ________ her mobile phone.
A) Did she buy
B) Had she bought
C) Has she bought
D) She had bought

Answer 1

Hint:The past perfect is a verb tense which is used to show an action took place once or many times before another point in the past.

Complete answer:
The given sentence ‘I asked my friend where ________ her mobile phone’ is in past perfect tense.
Option A) Did she buy – is an incorrect answer because ‘did’ is the auxiliary word and ‘did’ is used in the past tense. So, where ‘did she buy’ is grammatically wrong and thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Option B) Had she bought – is an incorrect answer because ‘had she bought’ – had is used in past tense and had is used as an auxiliary verb to form the past perfect and the past progressive tense. Thus, the use of ‘had she bought’ is an incorrect fit in the blank and makes the sentence grammatically incorrect. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Option C) Has she bought – is an incorrect answer because ‘has’ is part of the verb ‘to have’ and it is used in the present tense for the third person singular. But we need past perfect tense to fill in the blank and the given sentence is in past perfect tense. Thus, the use of ‘has she bought’ is an incorrect answer.

Option D) She had bought – is the correct answer because ‘she had bought’ means she had already purchased the phone and this task was already completed before asking the friend. So, we use past perfect tense for the events that occurred earlier. So, she bought the correct answer.

Hence, the correct answer is Option ‘D’.

Note: When one event in a sentence happened before another in the past, then past perfect tense is used for the event that occurred earlier. In the given sentence, 'buying the mobile phone' was completed before 'asking the friend'. So, the correct option is D. Between options B) and D), option D) she had bought is correct because the noun 'she' is coming before 'had'.