Question

Frame meaningful sentence in the appropriate tense(s) using the words given:

(I/ not / read / a newspaper / yesterday)

• A. I haven't read a newspaper yesterday
• B. I don't read a newspaper yesterday.
• C. I didn't read a newspaper yesterday.
• D. I hadn't read a newspaper yesterday.

Answer 1

Answer: (C), (D)

I didn't read a newspaper yesterday.
I hadn't read a newspaper yesterday.

Simple past tense is used to indicate an action that happened/occurred sometime in the past. The syntax verb in the simple past tense is: verb in the second form. Here, the same is indicated (action (not) happened yesterday). Therefore, the correct option is C: I didn't read a newspaper yesterday.

Past perfect tense tells about an action that was completed in the past. Here, the action of not reading a newspaper completed in past. So, option D: I hadn't read a newspaper yesterday is also correct.

The rest of the options are related to the present tense, hence they are incorrect for the given sentence.