Question

Frame a suitable question using the given words:

A friend has just come back from holiday. You ask him about it. Write your question.

(what / do in the evenings?)

• A. What have you done in the evenings?
• B. What will you do in the evenings?
• C. What are you doing in the evenings?
• D. What did you do in the evenings?

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

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 doing something in the evenings. 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'. Hence, Option D 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 B).

Hence these options are incorrect.