Question

The doctor ______ to see you yesterday. Choose the most appropriate word to fill the blank.
A. Come
B. Came
C. Has come
D. Will come

Answer 1

Hint: Tenses are a very integral part of speech. They, when used with the correct form of verbs, help to create proper meaningful sentences. The use of the correct Auxiliary verb is also an integral part of the tenses. Auxiliary verbs help to display the verbs in accordance to different tenses.

Complete answer:
1. In order to find the correct answer, we need to go through every option and see which of the these goes perfectly with the given context. But primarily it is important to find out the tense of the sentence.
The given sentence is in past tense as we can see, the word ', yesterday' is used. Therefore, the correct form of verb used would have to be in past tense as well.
2. The first option, 'come' is in present tense. It is used for simple present tense or present indefinite. Here, it cannot be used in the given sentence. Therefore, this option is incorrect.
3. The third option, 'has come' is in present perfect tense. As we know there is a clear differentiation between present perfect and past tense. Here, the word is not in accordance with the context of the sentence.
4. The fourth option, 'will come' is in future tense, as we can see the word 'will' is used. Therefore, this option is completely incorrect to the given context.
5. The second option, 'came' is the form of verb as used for past tense. And we can see, the word ‘yesterday’ also denotes the past tense. Therefore, this is the correct option and fits best with the context of the given sentence. Please note that ‘the doctor came yesterday to see the health condition of yours’. Which perfectly describes a narration as happened in the past.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’’

Note: The use of Auxiliary verbs are very important while dealing with verbs and tenses. These auxiliary verbs are used to differentiate between tenses as the forms of verbs are limited. Hence, one should understand the use of such words in a sentence.