Question

Choose verb in the correct form, present simple or past simple, active or passive:

Ron's parents ___________ (die) when he was very young. He and his sister __________ (bring) up by their grandparents.

a)were died ............. brought
b)died ........... brought
c)died ............ were brought
d)were died ........... were brought

Answer 1

Hint: A verb’s tense is a category that expresses the time reference with reference to the moment of speaking, and the verb’s voice in a sentence is the relationship between the action that the verb carries out and the participants identified by its actions.

Complete step-by-step answer:

In any sentence, the simple past tense is used when we have to indicate an action or event which has previously happened in the past.
The syntax for the simple past tense in active voice is:
The verb in the IInd form
The syntax for the simple past tense in passive voice is:
Was/were + Verb in IIIrd form
In a sentence, an active voice is used when the doer (subject) comes first and performs an action that is described in the rest of the sentence (predicate).
Passive voice is used when the predicate comes before the subject.

Therefore the correct option for this question is: died .......... were brought, which is an option (c.).

Note: Gauge the tense of the given sentence. Does it refer to something that is happening or something that has happened before? Use the right tense only after gauging the event’s presence (past or present) in the sentence.