Jide … before I arrived. — From the words or group of words lettered A-D, choose the word or group of words…

Analyze the question: The sentence is "Jide _ before I arrived." It describes two past events: Jide eating and my arriving. The eating happened first, and the arrival came after.

Concept: the past perfect tense When two actions happened in the past and one finished before the other, we use the past perfect for the earlier action.

• Formula: had + past participle
• Signal words: before, after, by the time, already

Check each option:

• A. could have eat – Wrong. After "could have" we need a past participle (eaten), not the base form eat.
• B. had eaten – Correct. It is the past perfect (had + eaten) and shows the eating happened before I arrived.
• C. must had eaten – Wrong. After a modal verb like must, we use have, not had (it would be "must have eaten").
• D. have eaten – Wrong. This is the present perfect, which doesn't fit with "before I arrived" (a past time).

Complete sentence: Jide had eaten before I arrived.

Tip: When you see before I arrived (simple past) in a sentence, the other action usually needs had + past participle. Also remember that modals (can, could, must, should, would) are never followed by had or by a base form in perfect structures. They take have + past participle.