Question

Yesterday I ___ my parents made dinner.
A) help
B) Helps
C) Helped
D) helpped

Answer 1

Hint: The tense category is used to express time relations. Tenses are usually expressed by using specific forms of verbs, particularly in their conjugation patterns. In several languages, the past, current, and future are the three main tenses. The past tense is a grammatical tense that refers to something that happened in the past.

Complete answer:
In the above sentence, the word ‘yesterday’ shows that the sentence is in the past tense. Therefore, we have to use the past tense of ‘help’ to fill in the above blank. Past tense verbs refer to past actions or events. They may be regular verbs that simply end in a "d" or "ed," or irregular verbs that change their spelling to indicate the past tense.

Now, let us look at the given options:
A) help: This option is incorrect because ‘help’ is in present tense whereas the above sentence is in past tense therefore the verb has to be in the past tense too.
B) Helps: This option is incorrect because ‘helps’ is the present tense of verbs whereas we have to use past tense in the above sentence.
C) Helped: This is the correct option. We have to use the past tense of verbs in the above sentence and the past tense of ‘help’ is ‘helped’.
D) helpped: This option is incorrect because the word ‘helpped’ does not exist in English.

Thus, the correct answer is option C i.e, helped.

Note: A verb is a word that expresses an event, an occurrence, or a state of being through syntax. The infinitive is the most simple type of English, and it can be used with or without the particle too. Verbs are inflected in many languages to indicate tense, aspect, mood, and expression.