Question

Frame meaningful statement using the given words from the bracket:

(I/ not / read / a newspaper today)

• A. I didn't read a newspaper today.
• B. I hadn't read a newspaper today.
• C. I haven't read a newspaper today.
  
• D. I am not read a newspaper today.

Answer 1

The correct option is C I haven't read a newspaper today.

Option C: 'Haven't read' expresses the present perfect tense. It states an action that has just completed in the present. The sentence is complete and meaningful: the person 'I' had not read the newspaper till the time of mentioning it.

Hence option C is correct.

Option A: 'Didn't read' expresses an action in the simple past. But 'today' states an action in the present. Hence the verb form does not match with the adverb 'today'.

Option B: 'Hadn't read' is in the past perfect tense. It states an action that completed in the past, before another action took place.

The given sentence states only one action, there's no connection with 'another action' as in the past perfect.

Option D: 'Am not' is in the simple present tense whereas 'read' is a past tense verb. These words in the verb phrase do not agree with one another. The correction is a present participle 'reading': am not reading'.

Hence options A, B and D are incorrect.