Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option:"Why _______ you go to the market?"
"I ______ no time."

Solution (By Examveda Team)

1. Why didn't you go to the market?
The question refers to a specific action in the past that did not happen. Therefore, the simple past negative form "didn't" is appropriate.
"Why didn't you go to the market?" asks for the reason why the person did not go to the market.

2. I hadn't no time.
The intended meaning is "I had no time." The word "had" is the past form of "have" and is appropriate because the situation occurred in the past.

However, "I hadn't no time" is not standard modern English because "hadn't" already contains the negative "not", while "no" is also negative. Thus, it creates a double negative.

The grammatically correct forms would be:
"I had no time."
or
"I didn't have any time."

Why the other options are incorrect:

Option A: do / had
"Why do you go to the market?" is in the simple present tense and generally asks about a habit or regular action. It does not fit the specific past situation intended here.

Option B: will / have
"Why will you go to the market?" refers to a future action, whereas the dialogue clearly concerns a past situation.

Option C: did / hadn't
"Why did you go to the market?" asks why the person went to the market. However, the intended reason "I had no time" indicates that the person did not go. Therefore, "did" does not convey the intended meaning.

Option D: didn't / hadn't
"Why didn't you go to the market?" correctly expresses the intended past negative action. Although "I hadn't no time" is grammatically non-standard because of the double negative, Option D is the intended answer among the choices given.

Therefore, the correct answer is Option D — didn't / hadn't.