Question

Fill the correct present perfect or simple past form of the verb from the options given below:
India ______ the one-day match yesterday.
a. win
b. wins
c. won
d. had won

Answer 1

Hint: Simple past tense is a tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by inflection of a single word (i.e., without any auxiliary verb such as be or have).
Present perfect tense is a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present. `I have finished' is an example of the present perfect.

Complete solution:
In the given question, the verb ‘win’ refers to being the winner in a contest or competition; being victorious.
We need to fill in the blank with either the present perfect tense or the simple past tense of this verb ‘win’.

Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:
Option (a.), 'win', refers to the simple present tense form of the verb ‘win’ for plural nouns.
Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as it is neither present perfect tense or the simple past tense of this verb ‘win’.

Option (b.), ‘wins', refers to the simple present tense form of the verb ‘win’ for singular nouns.
Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as it is neither present perfect tense or the simple past tense of this verb ‘win’.

Option (c.), ‘won', refers to the simple past tense form of the verb ‘win.’
Therefore, option (c.) is correct as the action happened in the past (indicated by the word yesterday in the sentence).

Option (d.), ‘had won', refers to the past perfect tense form of the verb ‘win’.
Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as it is neither present perfect tense or the simple past tense of this verb ‘win’.

Note: In this question, keep in mind that even though the question calls for either the present perfect or the simple past tense, there is only one correct tense for this sentence. There is no option that presents the verb in present perfect tense, but if it did, it would be incorrect as the event in the sentence happened ‘yesterday’, and therefore, in the past, which is why only one tense, i.e the simple past tense is correct.