1. Which of the following sentence uses the past tense verb?
A. By June, I will have owned the camera shop for a decade.
B. After it was sold, I had owned the camera shop for 12 years.
C. I cannot recall a time when I have not owned some kind of shop.
D. I owned the shop the year you were born.
Look for the sentence with a past-tense verb in the main clause. Remember that past tense verbs do not use a helping verb.
I'll be glad to check your answer.
What is your answer? For review of verb tenses, read your text materials or try this:
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/verb-tenses.html
The answer is b
The sentence that uses the past tense verb is option D: "I owned the shop the year you were born."
To identify the past tense verb in a sentence, we need to look for a verb that indicates that the action happened in the past. In option D, the verb "owned" is in the past tense, indicating that the action of owning the shop occurred in the past.