Fill in the blank with a suitable verb:
He ______drive a car when he was eighteen.

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answer is B.

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Detailed Solution

Concept- He could drive a car when he was eighteen.
In the given question, we've to find out which of the options are in once tense( as he was suitable to drive a auto when he was eighteen).
Let us therefore dissect the options given to us in this question
1)' is suitable', refers to a expression that's grammatically incorrect as ‘ is ’ is a preposition which is generally used after an adjective like ‘ suitable ’.
thus, option(1) is incorrect.
2) ‘ could', is used to express an capability in the history, for illustration “ I could always beat you at tennis when we were kiddies. ” The below judgment , addresses about a time when the said person ‘ was eighteen ’ and ‘ was suitable to drive at that point of time ’, pertaining to the history. So, Option( 2) is the correct answer.
3) ‘ can', is used to express capability( in the sense of being suitable to do commodity or knowing how to do commodity), for illustration ‘ He can speak Spanish but he can not write it veritably well. thus, option(3) is incorrect.
4) ‘ is used to', refers to a expression that's grammatically incorrect.
thus, option( 4) is incorrect as a grammatically incorrect option can not be the answer.
Hence , the correct answer is option 2.

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