Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:

The teacher told us that we ______ work harder at our English.

• A. have
• B. must
• C. could
• D. may
• E. had to

Answer 1

The correct option is E had to

A verb is used to express an occurrence, action, or state. It is the grammatical center of the predicate in a sentence.

An auxiliary verb is a verb which is used in the formation of tenses, moods, tones, etc.

Option E is correct as told and work indicate the use of had to.

The other options are wrong as no other tense can be used here.

The correct answer is E) had to