Question

Your friend wants to know about yesterday’s telecast of her favourite TV show.
Select suitable option as your reply:
A. I don’t watch TV yesterday.
B. I haven’t watched TV yesterday.
C. I hadn’t watched TV yesterday.
D. I didn’t watch TV yesterday.

Answer 1

Hint: In the question as shown above, we have been asked to select the suitable option as our reply which my friend got from me. In other words, we have been asked to choose the correct ‘dialogue’. It is a form of verbal conversations between two or more people. It is written in a particular tense just like other forms of writings in English. It is very important to remember that while writing dialogues for a given sentence, we often tend to jumble up the tense which is not right. We have to keep in mind that the tense should be in accordance with the question (first dialogue) so that the proper timing could be denoted.

Complete step by step answer:
1. Here we will be checking each option one by one so that we can detect the correct option containing the suitable option as ‘my’ reply.
2. To find the correct option as the reply, we first have to find the tense of the sentence that we are looking for. We can see that the question is asking us to select the suitable reply to give to our friend who wants to know about yesterday’s telecast of her favourite TV show. Since, she (the friend) is asking about yesterday, the sentence (dialogue) has to be in the past tense.
3. If we look at the first option, “I don’t watch TV yesterday”, we can see that there is a grammatical error in it. The word “don’t” should have been “didn’t” instead. This would make the sentence correct. But due to the wrong form of the verb as it makes this option wrong.
4. Moving on, when we look at the second option, “I haven’t watched TV yesterday”, we can see that the helping verb “haven’t” along with the verb “watched” makes it present perfect, but we discussed the time as occurring in the past. Thus, this option is also wrong.
5. When we look at option C, “I hadn’t watched TV yesterday”, we can see that the sentence is in the Past Perfect tense. This tense is used when more than one event took place in the past. It helps to make it clear about the sequence of the two events. But, in this question, only one event is taking place. Thus, this sentence should not be used here.
6. Option D is “I didn’t watch TV yesterday”. We can see that this sentence is in the Simple Past tense. This tense is used when we state that an action started and finished during a time in the past. Here it is mentioned that some action which has not taken place yesterday or the ‘day before’. Thus, this is the correct option.

Hence the option D is the right answer.

Note:
The order or syntax of the words and phrases in the Simple Past tense is started by the subject which is followed by the phrase “did not” as auxiliary verb and then the verb which comes before the object(s). If the sentence was opposite like “I watched TV yesterday”, we can notice an important thing there. Please note that the necessity of the auxiliary verb is ended there as the sentence is depicted in positive mode.