Question

Use the given verb in a suitable form:
If they had tried, they ________ (win) the match.

Answer 1

Hint: A verb is a doing word. Any word which denotes any action is a verb. For example, ‘I go to school’. The word ‘go’ is a verb.

Complete answer:

 In the given sentence, the verb given in the brackets is ‘win’. The win means to achieve victory. Winning denotes achieving success.
Now, let us try to figure out the correct form of the verb. Let us look at the tense used earlier in the sentence. The word ‘had’ is used. Had is past perfect tense. The correct form of the verb ‘win’ to be used in the sentence is ‘would have won’. Thus, the sentence reads as, ‘If they had tried, they would have won the match’. This sentence implies that they had not tried to win the match, that is, they did not work hard enough. Therefore, if they would have put in more work, they could have won the match.
‘Would have’ is used when you want to imply that something did not happen because something else did not happen earlier. This ‘something else’ that did not happen earlier is that they did not try hard enough.

Note: Though a pronoun is a form of the noun, the question implies a common noun. If the question would have asked us to identify the pronoun, the word ‘pronoun’ would have been mentioned in the question.