Question

Choose the appropriate word form to fill in the blank-
Look! There’s an ambulance over there. There ______ an accident. (Be)
a) Have been
b) Is
c) Has been
d) Will be

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence carefully and try to make out the meaning of the sentence. Try to make out the subject, predicate, and object of the sentence as well.

Complete answer:
The present perfect tense is used to describe something that happened in the past, but the exact time it happened is not important. It has a relationship with the present.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer -
Option ‘a’ is Have been. Have/has + past participle makes the present perfect.
In this sentence, a mention has been made about something which has happened in the past (accident). Now since the whole sentence is in the third person, we would be using “has” and not “have”.
(“have” is used in case of first and second person framed sentences.)
Option ‘b’ is Is. It cannot be the correct answer.
Option ‘c’ is Has been. Now, for the past participle, it is the form of a verb, typically ending in -ed in English, which is used in forming perfect and passive tenses and sometimes as an adjective. In this case, the past becomes, “been”.
Option ‘d’ is Will be. It cannot be the correct answer as it is in the future tense. Hence, option ‘c’ is the correct answer.

Note:
You must pay attention to the tense of the given sentence. There are 3 tenses- past, present, and future tense.