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Fill in the blank with the most suitable option given below:
He _________ his dinner before I reached home.

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will have finished

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has finished

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had finished

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may have finished

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Solution

The correct option is D had finished
When two actions happened in the past, the one that happened earlier is denoted by 'Past Perfect Tense' and the other is denoted by 'Simple past Tense'. In this case, the action of finishing dinner happened earlier, so the correct answer will be option C 'had finished'.

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