Direction: Choose a sentence that is in the simple past tense.
A. My uncle broke his promise to keep up with the trend of being healthy.
B. My uncle had been breaking his promise to keep up with the trend of being healthy.
C. My uncle had broken his promise to keep up with the trend of being healthy.
D. My uncle was breaking his promise to keep up with the trend of being healthy.

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This question was previously asked in

SSC GD Constable (2022) Official Paper (Held On : 17 Jan 2023 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is "A. My uncle broke his promise to keep up with the trend of being healthy."

Key Points

Simple past tense is used to describe a completed action in the past.
Structure for simple past tense: Subject + V2+ Object
- Example: She took my bag.
The verb "broke" is in the simple past tense. (The V2 form of the verb "break.")
The correct answer is "Option 3."

Additional Information

Option 2 (My uncle had been breaking his promise to keep up with the trend of being healthy) is in past perfect continuous tense, indicating an action that started in the past and continued up until another point in the past.
Option 3 (My uncle had broken his promise to keep up with the trend of being healthy) is in the past perfect tense, indicating an action that was completed before another point in the past.
Option 4 (My uncle was breaking his promise to keep up with the trend of being healthy) is in the past continuous tense, indicating an action that was ongoing in the past but may not have been completed.