Question

Q. Yesterday I saw a movie that my friends __________ the week before.
a) have seen
b) had seen


Please answer...

Answer 1

Yesterday I saw a movie that my friends had seen the week before.

Why do we use past perfect tense to fill in the blank?

• The sentence structure of the statement in the question depicts an action that occurred in the past.
• Past perfect tense is used to indicate an action that occurred in the past before another action occurred in the past.
• As the person watching a movie yesterday and his friends watching a movie a week before are both actions in the past, hence past perfect tense will be used to fill in the blank.