Question

How many books do you think he _______ before he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature?

Answer 1

had is the answer of this question

Answer 2

Answer:

Wrote

Explanation:

Now, The sentence is asking the second person about the amount of books he wrote in the past till the time he got the Nobel Prize, now you can see that the question is asking the second person about the writer’s past working making it easily a past participle sentence. Hence, the correct form of write will be “wrote”, as the sentence is in simple past form, making the verb in the sentence a past participle verb form.