Question

he did his duty with utmost passion. identify the verb and state its tense.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Simple Past/Past Indefinite.

The verb in the given sentence is 'did'.

Explanation:

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.

Simple Past Tense form ends in ed or V2. Simple past tense form of the irregular verbs is used. We use did+V1 form in negatives and questions. For example,’ The car did not start.’ and ‘What did you tell the police?’

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

Did+S+V1+O?