Question

1) They now had a new winter home. (Identify the verb and its tense)

Answer 1

The verb of the sentence is 'had'. The tense of the verb is 'Past-Perfect Tense'.

How to identify a verb and its tense?

• A verb in a sentence is the action or the task that is being done or already done or will be done by the subject in the sentence, and the time when it is done or the status of that task can be called its tense.
• So we simply ask the subject a question like 'What is he/she doing? the answer that we get is called our verb. Here, in the given example, there is a helping verb 'had' used in the sentence.
• Helping verbs are used with or in place of main verbs in the sentence. To remember 'had' is the verb in the past tense.
• As it shows the completion of the task already, it will be called the Perfect-Past tense.

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