Question

A friend has just come back from holiday. You ask him about it. Choose your question using the following words:

(food/good?)

• A. Has the food been good?
  
• B. Was the food good?
• C. Is the food good?
  
• D. Will the food be good?
  

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

The simple past (also called past simple, past indefinite) is a verb tense which is used to show that a completed action took place at a specific time in the past. We use the simple past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past, here, the action of having the food. The simple past is formed using the verb + ed. In addition, there are many verbs with irregular past forms. Questions are made with 'did' and negative forms are made with 'did not'. To describe a state, "was" is used. Hence, Option B is correct.

The rest of the options do not express this condition. They either mention actions that are happening in the present (Options A and C), or actions that are yet to happen in the near future (Option D).

Hence these options are incorrect.