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Kausttav Mukherjee

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· 1 Months ago

has been should be used

Question:

DIRECTIONS: Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The price of oil (had risen sharply) in the recent weeks.

Options:
A)

has risen sharply

B)

has been raised sharply

C)

has raised sharply

D)

No improvement

Solution:

Ans: (a) ‘Recently’ indicates the action of immediate past, so present perfect tense must be used and ‘risen’ is the V3 of ‘rise’ which must be used after "has".

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· 1 Months ago

Yet to be approved!

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