Question

He cut the wire. Identify the
tense
a. Future continuous
b. Present Indefinite
c. none of these
d. Future​

Answer 1

He cuts the wire. Identify the tense

Answer:

• It is a present Indefinite tense.
• 'He' is Subject in the given sentence.
• 'He' is a third person singular number, tha is why 's' has been used after the main verb cut = cuts.

• If the given sentence is : 'He cut the wire' then the identified tense will be simple past tense.
• Cut is a irregular verb. Present, past and past participle form of cut is 'cut'. It is unchangeable.
• Past Indefinite tense has an auxiliary verb it is 'did'.

Answer 2

Answer:

c. none of these

Explanation:

'He cut the wire' is in Simple Past. Simple Past Tense is used to :

a)  talk about actions which occurred at regular intervals in the past.  

e.g. Last year I drove to Ambala once a month.

b) to talk about situations which existed for a period of time in the past.  

e.g. Thousands of years ago humans lived in caves.

c)  Talk about non-continuous actions which occurred at a definite time in the past.

e.g. India launched Mars Orbiter Mission in 2013.

For questions in simple past tense we use the following structure:

Did+S+V1+O?