Question

I ______ ( to want) to visit you yesterday,but you _____ ( to be) not at home. ​

Answer 1

The blanks will be filled as

I wanted to visit you yesterday, but you were not at home.

Past Tense verbs-

• The verbs in the past tense imply that the action/task has been already performed. It is something that has happened in the past.
• As the narrator or the speaker mentions the time as 'yesterday' we get a hint to use the past tense because that's what the time says.
• So we will use the past tense form of verbs that are given in the brackets of the sentence.
• Usually all the verbs in past tense end in -ed. But that's not the case all the time.
• However here, the first bracket is "to want" so the past tense will be 'wanted'. And that will be added in the blank.
• The second bracket is "to be", and the verb "be" has many forms. That include was, were, am, is, etc.
• The suitable and correct form of "be" here will be 'were'. So we fill the second bracket with that.

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