Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined words in the following sentence.
My parents had not call me yesterday.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. did not call.
"Had" (past perfect) must be followed by the past participle ("called"), not the base verb ("call").
"Yesterday" is a specific past time indicator, which usually requires the simple past tense.
The past perfect ("had called") is used when there are two past actions and one happened before the other.
In this sentence, there is only one past action (parents not calling yesterday).
So we use simple past i.e. did not call.
Corrected sentence: My parents did not call me yesterday.