Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution’.
It was a second hand car but it hasn't been use much.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. hadn't been used.
- The context of the sentence suggests that the speaker is referring to a past point in time when the car had not been used much.
- To indicate this past time frame, the past perfect tense is more appropriate, as it establishes the action as completed before another point in the past.
- The correct verb will be Hadn't + been + V3 i.e. hadn't been used.
Thus, the corrected sentence would be: It was a second hand car but it hadn't been used much.