Question

Complete the sentence. Choose the correct form of a verb, positive or negative.
The hotel wasn’t very expensive. It _______ very much. (Cost)
a) Didn’t cost
b) Doesn’t cost
c) Won’t cost
d) Haven’t costed

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence carefully. Try to make out the core meaning of it. Find out the subject, predicate, and object of the given sentence.

Complete answer:
In the given question, we have to fill in the blank with the correct tense form of the word 'cost'. Tense is the time described by a verb, shown by its grammatical form. There are two main tenses in English: Present tense: things that are true when the words are spoken or written.
 The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration are not important. The given sentence conveys that the hotel wasn’t expensive, so, the cost wasn’t very much. We have to fill in the given blank with the correct form of the verb ‘cost’.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
Option ‘a' is Didn’t cost. It is the past tense of “do”. It is the correct answer as we have to use the past tense of “do” with “cost”, in the given sentence.
Option ‘b’ is Doesn’t cost. It cannot be the correct answer as it doesn’t align with the given sentence. ‘Doesn’t' is a contraction of “does not”.
Option ‘c’ is Won’t cost. It cannot be the correct answer as it is in the future tense and we have to use past tense in this question. So, we will eliminate this option.
Option ‘d’ is Haven’t costed. This is a grammatically incorrect phrase and cannot be used anywhere. So, we will eliminate this option as well.
The correct word to be filled in the blank is – didn’t cost. Hence, option ‘a’ is the correct option.

Note:
All the other options are plausible distractions. You must align the tense of the sentence with the tense of the blank word.