Question

The garden is now better kept than it............last year. (to be)

Answer 1

The correct form of the bracketed word to be used in the given sentence is as follows:-

The garden is now better kept than it was last year.

• 'was' is the past tense of 'is', which is another form of 'to be' that was given in the bracket.
• tense indicates the past, present and future of a verb form
• past tense indicates something that happened earlier, and not anymore
• present tense indicates something that is occurring in the current time cycle
• future tense indicates something that is yet to happen

Answer 2

Answer:

The garden is now better kept than it ____was_____last year.