Question

What time _______ home last night? (Fill in the blank with the most appropriate phrase.)
A) did you get
B) do you got
C) do you get
D) did you got

Answer 1

Hint: Here we have to form a sentence in the form of a question. A sentence is a meaningful collection of words that has a subject, a verb, and an object. Sentences generally have three basic tenses: past, present and future. The word “what” is used with context-specific objects in order to ask a question.

Complete answer:
In the given sentence, we usually place the auxiliary "do" or "does" at the beginning of the question before the subject to make a question in the simple present tense, and for questions in the past tense "did" at the beginning of the question before the subject to make a question in the past tense. They can also be combined with the word "what".

Now, let us evaluate the options:
Option A) did you get – This option is correct as the sentence is asking a question that relates to the past for which we use “did”. It is grammatically correct in simple past tense form.
Option B) do you got – This option is incorrect do is used for present tense. Meanwhile “got” is the past tense of “get”. Both the tenses cannot be mixed in a given sentence.
Option C) do you get – This option is incorrect the question is with reference to an event that has already happened hence “do” which is used in context with present tense cannot be used.
Option D) did you get – This option is also incorrect after using “did” it cannot be followed by the main verb in the past tense. Hence “got” cannot be used after using “did”.

A direct question is asked in an interrogative sentence, which will always end in a question mark. Words like what, why, when, where, which, who, whose etc. are generally used to ask a question. Hence option A is correct. What time did you get home last night? – is the final answer.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note:
- We note that the given sentence is a direct question and is asked in an interrogative sentence, which often ends in a question mark.
- The question is referred to as an "interrogative sentence”. Yes/no questions are formed using the interrogative.
- In the interrogative, the common structure is modal/auxiliary verb + topic + base form of the main verb.