Question

My brother said that we had - not to board the plane.
(a) been told
(b) was told
(c) told
(d) have told​

Answer 1

My brother said that we had been told not to board the plane.

Option (a)

EXPLANATION:

• ‘Tenses’ indicate the time when the action takes place, if it is sometime in the ‘present or past’ or would take some time in ‘the future’. ‘Tenses’ are generally expressed by the use of definite forms of verbs, especially in their ‘conjugation’ (the variation of the verb form) ‘patterns’ (a set of verbs sharing similar conjugation pattern in a certain language).
• The ‘past participle’ denotes an action which had taken place and finished wholly in the past. It is the ‘3rd principal part’ (basic forms of a verb comprising the’ infinite or base’, the ‘past tense’, and the ‘past participle’) of a verb, formed by adding, “-d, -ed, or -t” to the base form (simplest form) of a ‘regular verbs’ (conjugated (changes taking place in a verb expressing mood, tense, person and so on) in a traditional forms).
• The ‘past participle’ is usually used with an auxiliary/helping verbs, that “is, have, had, or has” to express the perfect aspect, which is, a verb construction which describes events taking place in the past which are connected to a later time, typically the present .

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Answer 2

Choose the correct answer:

My brother said that we had (a) been told not to board the plane.

Explanation:

• The word is verb in this sentence which defines the action of the subject.
• The verb is used in three tenses namely past, present and future.
• The construction of the verb used in this sentence is had + been + past participle. This is called past perfect form of the verb.
• This action is completed in the past itself.