Discussion
The movie was funny and I _________.
Answer: C
The sentence takes couldn’t help laughing.
The idiom cannot help doing something means being unable to stop oneself, and it is always followed by the -ing form of the verb: 'I couldn’t help laughing' says the film was so funny that laughing was involuntary.
'Could help laughing' drops the negative, so it says the opposite of the intended sense. 'Couldn’t help laughed' uses a past form where the gerund is required, and 'could helped laughed' puts a past form after the modal 'could', which always takes the base verb.
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