Question

the state of his affair...... hope less.
(was / were / will )​

Answer 1

was

is the right choice

Answer 2

The state of his affair was hopeless.

Use of correct helping verbs:

• A helping verb or sometimes known and used as an auxiliary is the addition to the main verb.
• In some cases, only the helping verb is used in the sentence as given in this example.
• The use of an appropriate helping verb in a sentence depends on many factors such as the nature of the noun and the tense of the statement given.
• Let's take the above example, the noun is singular in nature, and the tense is in the past.
• Thus, either was or were can be used as the correct verb for the blank as both are used for past tense verbs.
• But, 'was' is always used for singular nouns/ pronouns, and 'were' is used for plural nouns/pronouns. In this case, the pronoun 'his' represents a singular noun.
• Thus, 'was' will be the correct answer to fill in the blank.

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