Question

Choose the suitable form of past tense from the given words to fill the blank:

If I had a bout of cold, I would have ______ the doctor down the Roberts lane. (visit)

• A. visit
• B. visiting
• C. visited
• D. visits

Answer 1

The correct option is C visited

Option A - 'Visit' can be used if the sentence has 'I would visit'. As the given sentence is in the conditional perfect tense, we must use the past form of the verb. Thus option A is incorrect.

Option B - 'Visiting' can be used if the sentence has 'been' or the action is continuing. Thus option B is incorrect.

Option D - 'Visits' is used in the simple present tense and not in conditional perfect tenses. Thus option D is incorrect.

Option C - A perfect tense always has a verb in the past form. As the given sentence has 'would have', we can understand that it is the past perfect tense (conditional), hence we will use 'visited' here. Thus option C is the correct answer.

'If I had a bout of cold, I would have visited the doctor down the Roberts lane.'