select your answer?
Jf Kennedy was a senator before he --- -- president in 1960.
Has elected/was electing/was elected/elected
my answer is was elected
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sorry bc its passive voice, we use that like was/were+pp
The passive voice belongs in that subordinate clause.
The people elected him president.
The correct answer is "was elected."
To determine the correct answer, let's break down the sentence and look at the verb tense and context.
"Jf Kennedy was a senator before he ___ president in 1960."
In this sentence, we can see that we need to fill in the blank with a verb phrase that matches the past tense of the sentence. The sentence states that JFK was a senator before he became president in 1960.
The verb "elect" refers to the action of choosing someone for a position through voting. In this case, we are discussing the past event of JFK becoming president.
When we look at the options provided: "Has elected," "was electing," "was elected," and "elected," we can eliminate "has elected" and "was electing" because they are in the present perfect tense and past continuous tense, respectively.
Between "was elected" and "elected," both can be correct in different contexts, but considering the sentence structure and the past tense of the sentence, "was elected" fits the best.
So, the correct answer is "was elected."