Question

I heard that you ____ at the basketball match. (Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.)
A) Are
B) Were
C) Been
D) Gone

Answer 1

Hint: Words that indicate movement or a state of being are referred to as verbs.
Remember that the sentence is in past tense. In the above sentence you have to use a second-person plural.

Complete answer:
Some of a verb's arguments, such as its subject or object, can agree with the person, gender, or number of its arguments. The present tense denotes that an action is currently being carried out; the past tense denotes that an action has already been completed; and the future tense denotes that an action will be carried out.

Now let us look into the given options:
Option A) are: It is incorrect because the tense used in the sentence is past tense but ‘are’ is used for present tense.
Option B) were: It is the correct answer because it is in past tense. Correct sentence: I heard that you were at the basketball match
Option C) been: It is incorrect because ‘been’ is used after ‘have’ or ‘has’ which are absent in the above sentence.
Option D) gone: It is incorrect because gone can be used after was/were/be/is, etc. It is always an auxiliary verb.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: A verb is a term that conveys an event, an occurrence, or a state of being in syntax. It comes from the Latin verbum, which means "word." The infinitive is the simplest type of English, and it can be used with or without the particle to. Verbs can of various types: Intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, double transitive verbs and copular verbs.