Phrase: "team just won the final game"

[Jumito]

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #266 "Irregular Verbs Test (14)", question 7

Our hometown football team just ......... the final game of the season!

(a) win
(b) won
(c) winning

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #266 "Irregular Verbs Test (14)", answer 7

Our hometown football team just won the final game of the season!

Correct answer: (b) won
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I want to get the explaination.

Jumito

[tortoise]

You see, we don't have any signals of other tenses, except "just" for past tense. To my knowledge, "just" is sometimes a signal for past tense.

You cannot choose (a) win because Our hometown football team is a singular subject. And (b) winning is more impossible because we don't have any "to be" verb.

[Yankee]

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Nice explanation, tortoise.
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English