Question

Fill in the blank with the correct form of the word:
The carpenter ____ the new furniture for my shop last year. (prepare - correct form of the verb)

Answer 1

Hint: The sentence is very clear. The phrase ‘last year’ is used in the sentence. This means that the action happened very long ago. So, to convey that an action happened very long ago, we need to use Simple Past Tense.

Complete answer: The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. 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 is not important.
For regular verbs, in order to convert them, add -ed to the root form of the verb (or just -d if the root form already ends in an e).
For irregular verbs, things get more complicated. The simple past tense of some irregular verbs looks exactly like the root form.
For other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the simple past forms are more erratic.

In the given sentence, the carpenter had performed the action a year ago. It is stated like a fact in the given sentence, so, we must use the past tense.
The word ‘prepare’ refers to ‘make (something) ready for use or consideration’. This is an example of a regular verb. So, the past tense of this verb will be constructed by adding ‘d’ at the end of it. So, the past tense form of the verb ‘prepare’ is ‘prepared’.

Now, we know the exact answer. So, the given sentence will be written in the following way:
The carpenter prepared the new furniture for my shop last year.

Note: Choose the most appropriate option given the context of the sentence. Make sure all the forms of verbs are aligning with each other and work with each other perfectly.