Read the sentence. Masha’s birthday was yesterday, and she eated cake and ice cream. Which is the best replacement for the underlined word?

The sentence tells about something that happened yesterday, so the verb should be in the past tense. “Ate” is the past-tense form of “eat,” making “she ate cake and ice cream” correct. “Eats” is present tense, while “eat” and “eating” do not fit the sentence as written.

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