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Answer is Right!
Answer is Wrong!
The correct answer is “were”.
The sentence “I heard that you were at the basketball match” is in the past tense. This means that the action of being at the basketball match happened before the time of speaking. The other options are not in the past tense, so they are not correct.
- “Are” is in the present tense. This means that the action of being at the basketball match is happening now.
- “Been” is the past participle of the verb “to be”. It is used to form the perfect tenses, which are used to talk about actions that happened before a certain time. In this case, the perfect tenses are not appropriate, so “been” is not correct.
- “Gone” is the past participle of the verb “to go”. It is used to form the perfect tenses, which are used to talk about actions that happened before a certain time. In this case, the perfect tenses are not appropriate, so “gone” is not correct.