Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate words.
Where ___ you ___ on holiday last year?
(a) Did / went
(b) Go / did
(c) Did / go
(d) Do / go

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and try to understand the context of the given sentence. Choose the option which can best express the action being shown while keeping in mind that it should be in the past tense since we can see the use of ‘last year’.

Complete answer:
In the given sentence, we can see the use of ‘last year’. Hence, the verb form we need to use should also be in the past tense form of the verb.
First, let’s look at the past tense form of the verb-
Past tense is used to indicate an action that began and ended in the past itself.
For example- We saw a circus show last week. Here, ‘saw’ is in the past tense form. Hence, we can conclude that the action began and ended in the past itself.
Now, in the context of the sentence, whenever we ask a question, we generally use the form of ‘do’. Hence, the past tense of ‘do’ is ‘did’. Also, the use of ‘go’ suggests the action of traveling.
Hence, X is asking a question to Y; Where did you go on holiday last year?
Let’s examine the given options-
Option a- ‘Did/went’ is an incorrect option because ‘went’ is the past participle form of ‘go’.
Option b- ‘Go/ did’ is an incorrect option because we need to use ‘went’ in the first blank and ‘go’ in the second blank.
Option c- ‘Did/go’ is the correct option because it logically completes the context of the question.
Option d- ‘Do/go’ is an incorrect option because we need to use the past tense form of ‘do’.
The correct answer is Option ‘c’.

Note:
 Always remember that the simple past tense is formed by adding ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to the base form of the verb. But many verbs have their own distinct forms of past tense. For example- Drank, swam, sang, saw, etc.